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Grotocioat Society or France.—This important body celebrated 
its 50th Anniversary on April 1st, 1880, in the apartments of the 
Society, 184, Boulevard St.-Germain, Paris. The chair was taken 
by Prof. A. Daubrée, Memb. Inst., Inspector-General of Mines, last 
year’s President. An elaborate report was read by M. de Lapparent, 
this year’s President of the Society, reviewing the labours of the 
Society since its foundation. 
Mr. Thomas Davidson, F.R.S., F.G.S., attended the meeting as 
the English delegate, being accredited to represent the chief learned 
societies of this country. As one of the oldest members of the 
French Society, and a former resident in Paris, where his scientific 
labours are well known and highly appreciated, Mr. Davidson met 
with a most cordial and enthusiastic reception. He delivered a 
congratulatory speech in French. Prof. L. G. de Koninck (Belgium), 
Sig. Capellini (Italy), Sig. Vilanova (Spain), Prof. Mojsisovies 
(Austria), etc., also addressed the meeting. The proceedings con- 
cluded by a banquet at the Hotel Continental, at 7 p.m., at which 
eighty members and delegates were present. 
Grotocists’ Assocration.— Upwards of 100 members and guests 
of this flourishing Society assembled, at the St. James’s Restaurant, 
on March 4th, 1880, to celebrate by a Memorial Dinner “the coming 
of age” of the Association. The chair was occupied by the President, 
Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., F.G.8., supported by the Rey. T. 
Wiltshire, M.A., F.G.S., Prof. John Morris, M.A., F.G.S., R. 
Etheridge, F.R.S., Pres. Geol. Soc., Dr. Hyde Clarke, Prof. Owen, 
C.B., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., ete., Rev. Prof. Bonney, F.R.S., Capt. 
C. C. King, R.M.A., Mr. J. S. Gardner, F.G.8., Dr. E. B. Tylor, 
F.R.S., Pres. Anthrop. Inst., W. Carruthers, F.R.S., F.G.8., Henry 
Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., Wilfrid H. Hudleston, F.G.8., Dr. J. 
Foulerton, F.R.S.E., F.G.8., J. Logan Lobley, F.G.8., and other 
leading geologists. 
In proposing ‘The Geologists’ Association and its Founders,” the 
President gave an admirable sketch of the origin, rise, and develop- 
ment of the Association, and of the work it had carried on. 
Few Societies have had a brighter career or have done more solid 
work in twenty-one years than this Association. 
The Rev. T. Wiltshire, one of the Founders who was present, 
referred to the advantage derived by the accession of the members 
of the Palzontographical Society in its early days. Profs. Owen, 
Morris, Bonney, Messrs. Etheridge, John Jones, Carruthers, Tylor, 
Lobley, and others responded. 
GroLocists’ AssocraTion.— Easter Excursion.—A most successful 
excursion of the Geologists’ Association took place on March 29th 
and 80th, to Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Lymington, to study 
the Hocene Tertiary plant and shell-beds along the coast, under the 
able guidance of Mr. J. S. Gardner, F.G.S. The entire series of 
beds from Poole Harbour to Lymington was examined, and numerous 
points of geological interest studied in detail. The weather proved 
most propitious. 
