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would have disheartened many workers. Nevertheless he has steadily proceeded with 

 his self-appointed task, and made substantial additions to his science. He is still 

 engaged in his work on the Binnenthal, where he has discovered seven new minerals 

 which he has described. 



"Will you express a hope to Mr. Solly that this award may act as an incentive to 

 the prosecution of his researches, proving as it does that his work is appreciated by 

 the Council of this Society ? 



In presenting a sum of twenty-five pounds from the Barlow- 

 Jameson Fund to Mr. Henry C. Beasley, the President addressed 

 him as follows : — 



Mr. Beasley, — The sum of twenty-five pounds from the Barlow-Jameson Fund 

 is awarded to you by the Council in recognition of your important work on the 

 Triassic rocks. In connection with that work I may refer to your valuable 

 descriptions of footprints from the Trias, in which you have abstained from 

 burdening our fossil lists with new names. You have travelled much on either side 

 of the Atlantic, obtaining thereby much useful information concerning geological 

 matters, more especially with reference to the Triassic rocks. 



I may also allude to your work on Glacial Geology, and to a suggestive paper on 

 the water ejected from volcanoes. 



I hope that this award of the Council will encourage you in the further prosecution 

 of your fruitful researches. 



The President then proceeded to read his Anniversary' Address, 

 giving first of all obituary notices of several Fellows deceased since 

 the last annual meeting, including Dr. W. T. Blanford (elected a 

 Fellow in 1860), Baron Ferdinand von Eichtliofen (el. For. Memb. 

 1888), Prof. G. Dewalque (el. For. Memb. 1880), Prof. F. V. Raulin 

 (el. For. Corr. 1866), Mr. H. B. Medlicott (el. 1856), Capt. F. W. 

 Button (el. 1860), Mr. J. Mansergh (el. 1876), Sir John B. Phear 

 (el. 1852), Mr. W. J. Woodall (el. 1857), Mr. W. H. Goss (el. 1881), 

 and Mr. T. Barron (el. 1896). 



He then proceeded to describe "The Influence of the Geological 

 Structure of English Lakeland upon its present Features. — A Study 

 in Physiography." 



After a brief account of the light thrown upon the structure of 

 Lakeland by the writings of Otley, Hopkins, Clifton Ward, Good- 

 child, and Strahan, he considered his subject under the following 

 heads : — 



I. Events prior to the Uplift which produced the Dome. 



II. Production of the Dome. 



III. Initiation of the Drainage-lines. 



IV. Effects of the three Types of Rocks upon the Scenery. 



V. Modification of the old Drainage-lines. 



VI. Depression of the Outskirts. 



VII. Effects of Meteorological Conditions. (1) General. 

 VIII. ,, ,, ,, (2) The Glacial Period. 



IX. Conclusion. 



Of the events prior to the dome-shaped uplift he laid greatest 

 stress upon the movements of Devonian times, which had caused the 

 Lower Palaeozoic rocks to be affected by a series of fractures forming 

 a roughly rhomboidal network, the fissures being marked by belts 

 of bx-oken rock along their courses. These belts were spoken of as 

 ' shatter-belts,' and their nature and distribution described. 



He accepted Hopkins's view of the formation of a dome com- 

 parable in shape to a ' caddy-spoon ' with the short handle to the 



