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Dr. Dattbenet's future fame will rest cldefly upon his standard 

 wort on Volcanoes, first published in 1836, of which a second 

 edition, much enlarged and improved, was issued in 1848. This 

 work brought him into relation with scientific men everywhere, 

 and gained for him a world-wide reputation. 



As a member of the Cotteswold Club, as he was one of its 

 original founders, so he ceased not to take interest in its success ; 

 and though never a contributor to our Annals, was a regxdar 

 subscriber up to the year of his death. 



Our meetings during the past season were in all respects 

 successful and well attended, and there was no lack of papers 

 nor of subjects of interest for discussion. I am justified especially 

 in noting the entire success of our meeting at Bridgend, for the 

 examination of the Sutton and Southerndown beds, which I 

 beheve enabled us to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion respecting 

 the age and position of that much-debated section — the more 

 satisfactory inasmuch as it tended to confirm the views from 

 the first persistently urged by our colleague, Mr. Charles 

 MooKE — ^views in harmony with those long since advocated by 

 Sir Henry De la Beche, but which had been called in question 

 by later Geologists. Mr. Moore, as it seems to me, has had 

 but scanty justice done him in this matter. It is due to our 

 colleague and fellow-worker that the share he has had in 

 elucidating this question should be fairly stated; and, as yotn- 

 President, I claim the privilege of putting the facts of the case 

 on record. 



It will be in the recollection of members that in the month of 

 May, 1866, a paper by Mr, Tawney appeared in the Quarterly 

 Journal of the Geological Society, in which the Sutton and 

 Southerndown beds were regarded as Ehsetic, with a suggested 

 affinity to the St. Cassian beds; which view was at the same 

 time sustained by Dr. Duncan, from an examination of the 

 Madreporaria; his conclusion having been arrived at, as he 

 says, " quite irrespectively of Mr. Tawney's researches, and it is 

 strengthened by them." These views of Dr. Duncan's appear 

 afterwards to have undergone some modification, as in a paper 

 read by him before the Geological Society of London six months 

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