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XXIX. 



ON RECENT PHYSICAL QUESTIONS OF GEOLOGICAL 

 INTEREST— BEING A PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO 

 THE ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND, 

 1889. By A. B. WYNNE, F.G.S. 



[Read February 20, 1889.] 



Upon assuming the highly complimentary position in which this 

 Society has placed me, while endeavouring to conform to usage, I 

 am constrained to plead extenuating circumstances for lack of 

 leisure to prepare an address more worthy of your attention. 



The first duty I have to perform is to record with sorrow the 

 appearance on the death roll of former Fellows of the name of 

 William Hellier Baily, F.Gr.S., H.R.I.A., who was for many years 

 a frequent attendant at our meetings and contributor to our publi- 

 cations. 



After an illness of several months' duration he passed away on 

 the 6th of last August, at the age of sixty-nine, leaving behind a 

 long list of his many contributions to Palseontological literature. 

 Of these his notes alone, in the explanatory memoirs of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Ireland, of which he was a senior member since 

 1857, refer to no fewer than 66 of its published maps, and he was 

 besides the author of " Characteristic British Fossils," as well as 

 of numerous other less important papers and publications. His 

 presence linked us with a brilliant period for geology, with the 

 times of De la Beche, Lyell, Phillips, Murchison, E. Forbes, Jukes, 

 Darwin, Salter, Morris, and others his contemporaries, men who 

 have done so much to increase the tide of advancing energy in 

 connexion with our science. As a colleague who had long since 

 won a position in the field of geological research through the 

 medium of its palseontological aspects, we are called upon to pay to 

 his memory a fitting tribute of respect and regret. 



