186 Reports and Proceedings. 



take tlie opportunity of saying a few words concerning the nature 

 and extent of the scientific work executed* by this hardy and per- 

 severing geologist in his own most difficult country. 



Monsieur Eouault is one of those men who are independent of, 

 and rise above, all distinctions of class. Self-educated, in the strictest 

 sense of the term, a collector of fossils, because his nature would not 

 allow him to be other, he resembles the lamented Hugh Miller, and 

 our still active and useful countryman, Mr. Peach, the latter of whom 

 attained a similar distinction under very similar difficulties. 



Nearly seventeen years ago the valuable collections already in the 

 possession of Monsieur Eouault were presented to the municipality 

 of Eennes, and formed the principal nucleus of a museum then first 

 established. The previous owner then became Directeur-conservateur 

 of the Geological and Palaeontological Museum of the town of 

 Eennes ; and this museum has, since its first establishment, been 

 greatly enriched by the same agency. It is exceedingly rich in 

 local fossils, and contains many type-specimens, some of extreme 

 interest. 



The money I receive on the part of M, Eouault will, I am sure, 

 be employed by him in the best interests of science, and will be 

 recognized as a fit acknowledgment of the services he has already 

 rendered to palseozoic geology, and an earnest of work still in progress. 



The President then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, 

 in which he reverted to the subject treated by him in an Anni- 

 versary Address delivered in 1862, namely, the distribution and 

 succession of animal forms in time and space. The Address was 

 prefaced by biographical notices of deceased Fellows, including Prof. 

 Brayley, F.E.S. ; Dr. Hermann von Meyer ; Dr. B. Shumard ; Dr. 

 Eoget, F.E.S. ; Prof. G-raham, F.E.S. ; Prof. Jukes, F.E.S. ; Dr. W. 

 Clarke, F.E.S. ; J. W. Salter, Esq. ; the Vicomte d'Archiac, &o. 



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

 lowing were duly elected for the ensuing year : — President : Joseph 

 Prestwich, Esq., F.E.S. Vice-Presidents : Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, 

 Bart., M.P., F.E.S.; E. A. C. Godwin-Austen, Esq., F.E.S.; Sir 

 Charles Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.E.S. ; Warington W. Smyth, Esq., 

 M.A., F.E.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. ; WilHam Carruthers, Esq., F.L.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. ; Capt. Douglas Galton, C.B., F.E.S. ; E. A. C. Godwin-Austen, 

 Esq., F.E.S. ; Harvey B. Holl, M.D. ; J. Whitaker Hulke, Esq., 

 F.E.S. ; Prof. T. H. Huxley, LL.D., F.E.S. : J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., 

 F.E.S. ; Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.E.S. ; George Maw, 

 Esq., F.L.S. ; John Carrick Moore, Esq., M.A., F.E.S. ; Prof. John 

 Morris ; Joseph Prestwich, Esq., F.E.S. ; Warington W. Smyth, 

 Esq., M.A., F.E.S.; Eev. W. S. Symonds, M.A. ; Eev. Thomas 

 Wiltshire, M.A., F.E.A.S. ; Henry Woodward, Esq., F.Z.S. 



