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igneous rocks of Buttermere and Ennerdale, on the inclusions in the Mount- 

 Sorrel granite, on the Skiddaw granite, on the rocks surrounding the Kimberley 

 diamond pipes, and on the dedolomitization of marble at Port Shepstone. One 

 might perhaps even venture to think that your chief interest in the Cambridge- 

 shire boulders was aroused by the numerous rock-types which are thus to be 

 found scattered over a country not otherwise rich in problems of the more solid 

 geology, were it not for your contribution on the Cambridge district to Geology 

 in the Field. You have not neglected other sides of the science, and your paper 

 on the Dogger of Blea Wyke and that on the Ingletonian Series are important 

 contributions to our detailed knowledge of the position and character of these 

 strata. Your latest paper has dealt with your observations in South Africa, and 

 involves, not only an important elucidation of the tectonics of the area, but, if 

 its conclusions are accepted by South African geologists, a new reading of the 

 relations of the strata there. It is my pleasant duty to hand to you the Balance 

 of the Proceeds of the Lyell Fund. 



The President thereafter proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, 

 giving Obituary Notices of several Foreign Members, Foreign 

 Correspondents, and Fellows deceased since the last Annual Meeting, 

 including Dr. A. Michel-Lew (elected a Foreign Member in 1893); 

 M. Edouard Dupont (el. 1897); Dr. C. A. White (el. 1899); 

 Professor G. Stefanescu (elected a Foreign Correspondent in 1899); 

 Dr. A. E. Ttiruebohm (el. 1910) ; Sir J. D. Hooker f elected a Fellow 

 in 1846); Professor T. Eupert Jones (el. 1852); Professor N. Story 

 Maskelyne (el. 1854); G. Maw (el. 1864); G. P. Wall (el. 1862)'; 

 F. Braby (el. 1864) ; G. Attwood(el. 1872) ; S. F. Emmons (el. 1874) : 

 W. Shone (el. 1874); R. D. Roberts Tel. 1875); Rev. E. M. Cole 

 (el. 1889) ; G. E. Coke (el. 1901); and A. Long-bottom (el. 1909). 



He then made reference to the chief event of the year in the Society's 

 affairs — the transference of the collections in the Museum to the 

 authorities of the British Museum (jSTatural History) and of the Museum 

 of Practical Geology ; and dwelt at some length on the consequent 

 re-atraugement and extension of the Library. 



The main subject of the Address was a consideration of the methods 

 to be adopted for determining the actual extent of this country's 

 natural resources in the matter of coal, and the President remarked 

 that the inquiries of the Coal Commissions have shown that, of the 

 coal left unworked in Britain, 100,000 millions of tons remain in the 

 proved and 40,000 millions in the unproved coal-fields. It is pointed 

 out that it is as safe to reckon confidently on the latter quantity as on 

 the former. 



Careful estimates by competent authorities show that this quantity 

 of coal is likely to become exhausted between 2130 and 2200 a.d. 

 according to the precise basis upon which the calculation is made. 



It becomes, therefore, a serious matter to ascertain whetlier or no 

 we possess other supplies of workable coal not included in the estimate 

 of the Commissioners, and it is pointed out that in Eastern and Southern 

 England there exists an area of Palaeozoic rocks un conform ably 

 covered by Neozoic rocks larger in extent than the uncovered 

 Palfeozoic outcrop of England and Wales. 



This area has only been explored in regions which are in direct 

 prolongation of the exposed coal-fields, and by a very small number of 

 borings put down elsewhere. Some of these have demonstrated the 

 existence of Coal-measures or other Carboniferous rocks, and none 



