Reports and Proceedings—Geological Society of London. 331 
enlargements can be obtained of any of the photographs on application 
being made at the Geological Survey Office in Jermyn Street, where 
prints may be seen. 
3. AnnuAL Report oF tHE Iowa Geonoeicat Survey, vol. xix, for 
1908, dated 1909.—This volume contains a full report on the coal 
deposits of the State by Mr. Henry Hinds, and a history of the coal- 
mining, which dates back to about 1840, by Mr. J. H. Lees. The 
peat deposits of Iowa are described by Mr. 8. W. Beyer. Analyses of 
both coals and peat, also bibliographies of these subjects, are given. 
4, Tue Quatiry or Surrace Waters in THE Unrrep Srares.—This 
important subject is dealt with by Mr. Dole (Water Supply Paper, 
No. 286, of the U.S. Geol. Survey, 1909) in a work of which part i 
contains the results of over 5000 mineral analyses of water from the 
principal rivers of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. 
Daily samples of water from nearly 200 stations were collected for 
a year, united in sets of ten consecutive samples from the same stream 
and station, and the composite was then subjected to analysis. The 
analyses, giving as they do the average composition of the waters, 
the fluctuations of composition from day to day, and information 
regarding change of water-level wherever available, form the most 
complete collection of data regarding the quality of American rivers 
that has ever been published. They are on this account particularly 
valuable to railroad engineers and to managers of industrial plants 
and waterworks. 
Ra POREtS AND PROCHEH DINGS. 
GrotoeicaL Socrery oF Lonpon. 
May 25, 1910/— Professor W. W. Watts, Sc.D., M.Sc., F.R.S., 
President, in the Chair. 
The Address which it is proposed to submit to His Majesty the 
King, on behalf of the President, Council, and Fellows, was read as 
follows, and the terms thereof were-approved :— 
“To tHE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 
‘May ir preaseE Your Magszsty, 
‘* We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the President, Council, 
and Fellows of the Geological Society of London, humbly beg leave to offer to 
Your Majesty our deepest and most heartfelt sympathy in the great and sudden 
sorrow which has fallen upon you, and most respectfully to express the grief that 
we, in common with all Your Majesty’s subjects, feel at the great loss which 
has afflicted the Nation and the Empire in the tragic death of our late beloved 
and revered Sovereign King Edward VII, in the full vigour of his services for the 
welfare of humanity and the peace of the world. 
‘« Tn the depth of our sorrow we find comfort in the assurance that the sceptre of 
our wise King passes into the hands of one who will keep ever before him the high 
destiny of the Nation, and we venture humbly to offer our fervent congratulations to 
Your Majesty on your accession to the Throne, which, under the sway of your 
ancestors, has become the greatest in the world. 
‘We trust that the knowledge of the mineral structure of the earth, for a century 
