THE 
FOSSILIFEROUS DEPOSITS OF SCOTLAND. 
Tue following address was read by Mr. Mruuer, on his resign- 
ing the President’s Chair of the Society : — 
GENTLEMEN, —It is customary for the retiring President, 
in taking leave of the chair, to address the members on some 
general subject connected with the objects which our Society 
has been instituted to carry out; and in conforming to the 
practice, I shall take the liberty of stating, as briefly as possi- 
ble, the results at which I have arrived, in recently arranging 
the specimens of a collection perhaps more adequately repre- 
sentative of the Geology of Scotland than any other that has 
yet been made. There are other collections which, though 
more partial in their character, excel it in particular depart- 
ments; but none which I have yet seen sweep so completely 
the entire seale of our Scottish formations; and as such of its 
divisions as are most defective indicate, negatively at least, by 
the blanks on their partially filled shelves, the deposits on which 
we have still to direct our energies, it may be well that your 
attention should be specially called to these, as fields in which 
work has still to be done, and in which the reward of fresh and 
interesting discovery awaits the patient laborer. J am not sure 
