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success with which he has conducted that valuable weekly 

 publication. 



Professor Bonney, Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, for many years held the Professorship of Geology 

 in University College, London. He has trained many 

 students, not a few of whom have become excellent geo- 

 logists. He retired from the London chair in 1900, and 

 returned to Cambridge, where he still continues to devote 

 himself with unfailing zeal to instruct post-graduate and 

 undergraduate men in petrographical work. His pen also 

 still continues active. He has enriched geological literature 

 with many valuable papers and a number of separate 

 volumes. His contributions have dealt largely with glaciers 

 and glaciation, and with the microscopic structure of rocks. 



1886. The Anniversary Meeting in 1886, which was held 

 on June 17, was attended by twenty-one members, Warren 

 De la Rue being Chairman. The Treasurers' financial 

 statement showed the expenditure to have been 73 i6s. id., 

 leaving a balance of 77 95. 9d. in their hands. The sub- 

 scription for the ensuing year was fixed at one pound. 

 The number of dinners during the past year was twelve. 

 These had been attended by 157 persons, consisting of 

 137 members and 20 visitors. The largest attendance at 

 any dinner was 22 at the Anniversary, the smallest seven, 

 the average 13. 



The Minutes record that three members died during the 

 year, but omit to state who they were. They further 

 report that there were no fewer than sixteen absentees 

 under the new Rule VI., and add " the living ones were 

 reminded." Letters were read from Professor Huxley, 

 General Smythe and Professor Prestwich, resigning their 

 membership. 



The dates corresponding to those of last year were agreed 

 upon for the meetings of the session 1886-87. 



There were ten candidates on the list, from whom the 

 following six were elected to fill the six vacancies which 

 had arisen : Dr. John Hopkinson, Professor Robert Bel- 

 lamy Clifton, Professor Henry Nottidge Moseley, Professor 



