1V1. PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 



"Raised Beach " of the Pleistocene age, a remnant of which still 

 exists 25ft. above the sea level on the Bill of Portland, and which 

 stretched to the Cornish and Devonshire coasts on one side and to 

 Brighton on the other. He was appointed by the Vice-Chancellor 

 of the University of Oxford, Dean Liddell, to succeed Professor 

 Phillips in the chair of geology in 1874. He served the office of 

 President of the Geological Society of London from 1870 to 1872. 

 He was made Vice-President of the Royal Society in 1870. In 

 1874 the Institute of Civil Engineers awarded him the Telford medal 

 and a premium for his paper on " The Geological Conditions 

 affecting the Construction of a Tunnel between France and Eng- 

 land." In 1886 the first volume (chemical and physical) of his great 

 work on geology was published, and in 1890 the second volume 

 (stratigraphical and physical), when the University of Oxford 

 conferred on him the honorary degree of D.C.L. His latest papers 

 were read before the Geological Society of London " On the Age 

 of the Valley of the Darent and Remarks on the Palaeolithic 

 Implements of the District, &c ," in which he shows that on the 

 high chalk plateaux of Kent there are flint-implements of a peculiar 

 rude type, fashioned by a race of men of much greater antiquity 

 than those who made the implements of the Thames and Somine 

 valleys ; " On the Raised Beaches and Head, or Rubble Drifts 

 of the South of England," " On the Evidence of a Submer- 

 gence of Western Europe at the close of the Glacial Period," and 

 " On the Phenomena of the Quaternary Period in the Isle of 

 Portland and around Weymouth." His death took place on the 

 23rd June last at his country home, Darent Hulme, Shoreham, in his 

 84th year. His widow, who was daughter of Dr. Hugh Falconer, 

 F.R.S., and his beloved adviser and co-worker in the science he loved, 

 survives him. Colonel Mansel, my very near and dear relative, 

 was suddenly called away on the 26th March last. His profession 

 as a soldier did not bring him in close contact with the sciences 

 which engage our attention. On leaving the service he continued 

 to take interest in the profession of arms, and threw all his energies 

 into the furtherance of the Volunteer movement, which was at that 



