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time the President observed that scientific gratitude was of the kind 

 which had been defined as a lively sense of favours to come. — Mr. 

 Carruthers returned thanks for the honour conferred upon him, and 

 said that whilst he could not consider himself entitled to any such 

 recognition of his services to science, the award of the Council would 

 be both an aid and an encouragement to him in the further prosecu- 

 tion of his researches. — The President then proceeded to read his 

 Anniversary Address, in which he discussed the present position of 

 Geology in this country, and the various geological speculations 

 which are now more or less in vogue, and combated the assertion 

 which has been made, that geological speculation in this country is 

 opposed to the principles of Natural Philosophy. The Address was 

 prefaced by biographical notices of recently deceased Fellows, in- 

 cluding the Eev. S. W. King, M. Boucher de Perthes, of Abbeville ; 

 M. Morlot, of Berne ; Principal J. D. Forbes, F.R.S., of the Uni- 

 versity of St. Andrews ; Sir David Brewster, K.H., F.R.S., Principal 

 of the University of Edinburgh ; the Eev. J. Gr. Gumming, etc. 



The Ballot for the Council and Officers was taken, and the follow- 

 ing were duly elected for the ensuing year : President : Prof. T. H. 

 Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents : Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, 

 Bart., M.P., F.E.S. ; Sir R. I. Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., F.E.S. ; 

 Warington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.E.S. ; Eev. T. Wiltshire, M.A., 

 F.L.S. Secretaries : P. Martin Duncan, M.B., F.E.S. ; John Evans, 

 Esq., F.E.S. Foreign Secretary : Prof. D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.E.S. 

 Treasurer : J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.E.S. Council : Prof. D. T. 

 Ansted, M.A., F.E.S. ; W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq., M.A., F.E.S. : P. 

 Martin Duncan, M.B., F.E.S. ; Sir P. de M. G. Egerton Bart., M.P., 

 F.E.S.; John Evans, Esq., F.E.S., F.S.A. ; David Forbes, Esq., 

 F.E.S. ; J. Wickham Flower, Esq. ; E. A. C. Godwin-Austen, Esq., 

 F.E.S. ; Harvey B. HoU, M.D. ; Prof. T. H. Huxley, LL.D., F.E.S. ; 

 J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.E.S. ; Prof. T. Eupert Jones; Sir Charles 

 Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.E.S.; John Carrick Moore, Esq., M.A., 

 F.E.S.; Prof. John Morris; Sir E. L Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., 

 F.E.S. ; Joseph Prestwich, Esq., F.E.S. ; Earl of Selkirk, F.E.S. ; 

 Warington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.E.S. ; Alfred Tylor, Esq., 

 F.L.S; Eev. Thomas Wiltshire, M. A., F.E.A.S. ; Searles V. Wood, 

 Jun., Esq. ; Henry Woodward, Esq., F.Z.S. 



11. — Ordinary Evening Meeting, February 24th, 1869. — Paper read 

 " On the British Post-glacial Mammalia." By W. Boyd Dawkins, 

 Esq., M.A., F.E.S , F.G.S. 



The author stated that the Post-glacial or Quaternary Mammalia 

 of England and Wales amounted to 47. Of these only 15 are found 

 in Caves and not in Eiver deposits, whilst out of 31 found in the 

 latter, one, only, does not occur in caves ; hence the author inferred that 

 the Cave and Eiver deposits are palaeontologically synchronous. In 

 Scotland remains of Mammalia have occurred only in five places, 

 and in Ireland only in two places, in beds of Post-glacial age. The 

 author ascribed this unequal distribution to the long continuance of 

 subaerial glaciation in Ireland, Scotland, and North Wales. 



