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and Pleistocene deposits of Berkshire and Oxfordshire. Your detailed investigation 

 of the zones of the Upper Chalk has brought to light some interesting indications of 

 flexures and of a considerable erosion of the Chalk before the deposition of the 

 Reading Eeds ; "while your papers on the Plateau- and Valley- Gravels in the western 

 part of the London Basin have important bearings on the history of the rivers of that 

 region and on the origin of the present configuration of the ground. We hope that 

 you may be encouraged to continue and extend these observations. 



The President then handed the other moiety of the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Pund, awarded to Mr. Thomas 

 Pranklin Sibly, B.Sc, to Professor E. J. Garwood, M.A., for trans- 

 mission to the recipient, addressing him as follows : — 



Professor Garwood, — A second moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell 

 Geological Fund has been assigned to Mr. Sibly, on whose behalf I would ask you to 

 receive it, as a mark of the Council's appreciation of the zeal and ability with which 

 he has applied the method of zonal classification to the Carboniferous "Limestone of 

 various districts in England. There still remain many tracts of the British Isles in 

 which that portion of the Palaeozoic series has never yet been worked out in detail. 

 We shall be glad if he will be encouraged to enter some of them, and thus to continue 

 the work which he has already so successfully pursued. 



The President then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, 

 giving first of all Obituary Notices of sevei'al Fellows deceased since 

 the last Annual Meeting, including Prof. Marcel Bertrand (elected 

 For. Memb. in 1899) ; Dr. E. Mojsisovics von Mojsvar (elected For. 

 Memb. in 1893); Prof. Carl Kleiti (elected For. Corresp. in 1903) ; 

 Sir Eichard Strachey (elected a Fellow in 1851); Sir James Hector 

 (el. 1861) ; C. L. Griesbach (el. 1874) ; the Rev. P. Baron (el. 1889) ; 

 Prof. B. J. Harrington (el. 1883); Dr. E. J. Routh (el. 1864); 

 Mark Stirrup (el. 1876); Lord Allendale (el. 1851); A. B. Wynne 

 (el. 1860); J. F. Walker (el. 1867); Robert Law (el. 1886); Edward 

 Power (el. 1892); P. L. Addison (el. 1888); and T. W. H. Hughes 

 (el. 1865). 



He then dealt with the published work of the Geological Society 

 of London during the first century of the Society's existence, describing 

 in the first place the traces of the Neptunist and Yulcanist controversy, 

 as preserved in the early papers published by the Society. The 

 contributions to Geology which had apfjcared in the " Transactions," 

 " Proceedings," and " Quarterly Journal," were discussed under five 

 heads: (1) British Geology ; (2) Foreign Geology; (3) Petrography ; 

 (4) Palaeontology ; and (5) Physiography. In each of these divisions 

 a rapid review was offered of the general character of the contributions 

 presented to the Society, with a more particular reference to some of 

 the outstanding papers, especially to those which inaugurated a new 

 departure in geological research. In the last portion of the Address 

 reference was made to certain contrasts which such a review as had 

 been given presented between the past and the present character of 

 the papers published by the Society. Some of the conclusions to be 

 drawn from the contrast were urged on the attention of the Fellows. 

 The heritage of distinction which had been handed down from the 

 founders of the Society and their successors was a precious possession 

 of which every Fellow might well be proud, and which ought to be 

 continually borne in mind as a stimulus to sustain and extend the 

 Society's prestige. 



