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not be neglected, particularly in those years of life when a student is- 

 most qualified to profit by it, because the facts of science are so 

 many, and the grandest conclusions are so dependent on the higher 

 stages of knowledge. 



The veil of ignorance and of traditional opinion which hid from 

 the view of the Middle Ages the wonders which geology has since 

 revealed, was so opaque that, until the close of the eighteenth century, 

 no light could penetrate beyond. But so old and flimsy was it that,- 

 when once the strong hand of the geologist had torn it, it was rent 

 from top to bottom, and in the flood of light which entered discovery 

 followed discovery in endless succession. These discoveries have 

 benefited not onlj' geology but all its fellow- sciences, and have been 

 of supreme importance to man himself. 



Therefore, as geology goes hopefully forward into the new era 

 now opening out before it, its students sliould never forget that their 

 science is not only the interpreter of Nature, but also the servant of 

 Humanity. 



Tlie ballot for the Council and Officers was taken, and the following were declared 

 duly elected for the ensuing year : — Council : The Right Hon. Lord Avebury, P.O., 

 D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. ; F. A. Bather, M.A., D.Sc. ; W. T. Blanford, 

 LL.D., F.R.S. ; Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. ; Professor 

 E.J. Garwood, M.A. ; Sir Archibald Geikie, D.Sc, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. L.&E. ; 

 Professor T. T. Groom, M.A., D.Sc. ; Alfred Harker, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. ; R. S.- 

 Herries, Esq., M.A. ; R. Logan Jack, LL.D. ; Professor J. W. Judd, C.B., LL.D., 

 F.R.S.; Percy F. Kendall, Esq.; Professor Charles Lapworth, LL.D., F.R.S.; 

 Lieut. -General C. A. McMahon, F.R.S. ; J. E. Marr, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. ; 

 Professor H. A. Miers, M.B., F.R.S. ; H. W. Moncktou, Esq., F.L.S. ; E. T. 

 Newton, Esq., F.R.S. ; G. T. Prior, Esq., M.A. ; Professor H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 

 F.L.S. ; Professor W. J. Sollas, M.A., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S. ; J. J. H. Teall, Esq., 

 M.A., F.R.S. ; Professor W. W. Watts, M.A. 



Officers : — President : Prof. Charles Lapworth, LL.D., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents : 

 Sir Archibald Geikie, D.Sc, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. L. & E. ; Professor H. A. 

 Miers, M.A., F.R.S. ; E. T. Newton, Esq., F.R.S. ; and J. J. H. Teall, Esq., 

 M.A., F.R.S. Secretaries: R. S. Herries, Esq., M.A., and Professor 'W. W.. 

 Watts, M.A. Foreign Secretary: Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S. Treasurer: W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S. 



The thanks of the Fellows were unanimously voted to the retiring 

 Vice-Presidents, Mr. J. E. Marr and Professor H. G. Seeley ; and to 

 the retiring Members of Council, Mr. W. H. Hudleston, the Eight 

 Eev. John Mitchinson, Dr, D. H. Scott, Mr. A. Sopwith, and 

 Dr. Henry Woodward. 



II.— February 25th, 1903.— Professor Charles Lapworth, LL.D., 

 F.E.S., President, in the Chair, The following communications 

 were read : — 



1. " On the Occurrence of Dictyozamites in England, with Eemarks 

 on European and Eastern Floras." By Albert Charles Seward, 

 Esq., M.A., F.E.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Fellow of Emmanuel College, 

 Cambridge. 



The specimens described as a new species of Dictyozamites were 

 obtained from a bed of ironstone, low down in the Estuarine Series, 

 on the noi'thern face of the Upleatham outlier, near Marske-by-the- 

 Sea, by the Eev. John Hawell, F.G.S. The genus is also found ia 



