The Geological Society of London. 3 
the Society, and existed to publish its own papers, other peoples’ 
opinions and papers being a negligible quantity. 
As the years passed the names of Greenough, Conybeare, Buckland, 
Fitton, Sedgwick, Portlock, Horner, Murchison, Lyell, De la Beche, 
Forbes, Phillips, and Sharpe commenced to attract attention, and the 
world began to take an interest in the science ; the writings of Lyell 
especially attracted attention, and as he himself remarked at the Jubilee 
of the Geological Club in 1874, he had been condemned for his 
heresies from every pulpit in the country, but had lived to see as 
many parsons as laymen turn geologists. 
From the Geological Society has sprung into existence the Geological 
Survey of the United Kingdom, with its staff of surveyors all over 
the country, producing annually maps and memoirs of the greatest 
value to our science. The Museum of Practical Geology and its 
Royal School of Mines soon became another living centre from which 
a steady output of young geologists went forth each year to conquer 
the earth. Nor may we forget that in addition to the Quarterly 
Geological Journal and the Society’s Transactions has sprung into 
being the Paleontographical Society, with its grand array of mono- 
graphs of British fossils (now 60 years old). EE. Charlesworth’s 
London Geological Journal, 1846-47, the Geologist, edited by 
S. J. Mackie, 1858-64, the Grorocican Magazinn, by H. Woodward, 
1864 to the present time—all these have tended to help on the 
science of geology. 
As Englishmen we have reason to feel justly proud of our William 
Smith,’ and bis first Geological Map of England; of his nephew, 
John Phillips, whom he trained up to be the future teacher of many, 
the author of the ‘‘ Geology of Yorkshire,” the Curator of the York 
Museum, the home of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, which 
under Harcourt gave birth to the British Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science (now 76 years of age), that has done so much to 
promote geology as a study in these Islands; of Buckland, Sedgwick, 
Lyell, Murchison, Prestwich, Jukes, and the long list of their 
followers who have kept alive the flame of enthusiasm on the altar 
of our science through a hundred years. Nor must we forget that, 
born of the Geological Society, the Geologists Association (already 
48 years of age) has arisen as a vigorous offspring of the elder Society, 
and is even stronger on its feet than the parent, travelling each year 
over the length and breadth of the land and extending its rambles into 
France, Italy, and elsewhere. Never had Britishers reason to be 
prouder of a scientific body than we of the Geological Society (just 
a century old), the doyen of all the Geological Societies of the world, 
from whose founders and followers have arisen so many living affehinots 
of working associations, publications, field clubs, and local, societies. 
Copying the toast of a great city company we may exclaim ‘‘ Long 
may it flourish and grow, root and branch, for ever.” 
1 Styled by Sedgwick ‘‘ the Father of English Geology ’’ (see Grou. Mac., 1869, 
p- 356-359 ; 1870, pp- 301-803; 1873, ps "31; 1877, p. 378; 1892, pp. 94, 144 ; 
1897, p. 439). 
