XXXVIU PEOCBEDrNGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Horner himself, and were laid before the Council in 1860 and 

 1861 ; and the Eeports of the Museum Committees in every suc- 

 cessive year since 1860 bear ample testimony to the laborious zeal 

 with which Mr. Horner applied himself to the execution of the 

 task he had undertaken, and of the manner in which his labours 

 were appreciated both by the Council and the Committee. Tor, 

 besides the preparation of these systematic Catalogues, which are 

 arranged both geographically and geologically, and are so con- 

 structed that all future contributions can be at once added under 

 their proper heads, Mr. Horner himself undertook the formation 

 of a typical collection of rock-specimens, at the same time pre- 

 paring a catalogue of the whole, with illustrative notes. This 

 could not be undertaken without a laborious examination of 

 many separate collections dispersed throughout the Museum, 

 and hitherto useless for want of proper arrangement. The follow- 

 ing extracts from the Reports of the Museum Committees show 

 how his labours were appreciated in 1861. They say that they 

 " think it their duty, in referring to this subject, to call especial 

 attention to the continuous labour and great zeal of the Presi- 

 dent, who, in superintending the rearrangement, has given his 

 constant personal attendance to the details of the business, and 

 during the past year has spent several hours of stated days in 

 every week in actual labour in the Museum." And again, in 

 1864, I find this sentence, " The Committee cannot conclude this 

 Report without drawing the attention of the Council to the 

 unremitting zeal and continuous labour bestowed upon the re- 

 arrangement of the Society's Collection by Mr. Horner, who has 

 spent several hours almost daily in the Museum." I mention 

 these circumstances to show that, whether as President or not, 

 Mr. Horner devoted the principal portion of his time to the im- 

 provement of our Museum and the arrangement and cataloguing 

 of our collections, in a manner which, I may safely say, has 

 never been equalled by any other Member of the Society, and 

 which will ever deserve our best acknowledgment and our warmest 

 thanks. 



In 1860 Mr. Horner was again elected President, and in his 

 Address of the following year I find an interesting notice of Mr. 

 Darwin's work " On the Origin of Species," an able vindication 

 of the experiments of Sir James Hall against the adverse criti- 

 cisms of Prof. Grustav Rose*, and an account of the theories of 

 Metamorphism, chiefly based on the experiments and works of 

 M. Daubree, who, in papers quoted by Mr. Horner, gives full 

 credit to the illustrious Hutton as the first who pointed out that 

 subterranean heat had not only consolidated and mineralized the 

 deposits at the bottom of the sea, but had, moreover, raised up and 

 thrown into inclined positions beds which had been originally 

 horizontal, and who also showed the successive cooperation of water 



* See Quart. Joui'n. Greo]. Soc. vol. xix. part 2, p. 1, containing Prof. Rose's 

 subsequent recantation, translated by Mr. Horner himself. 



