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ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



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service as Mining Specialist to the Geological Survey of India, he 

 proceeded to South Africa. From 1899 to 1905 Anderson was 

 Government Geologist of Natal, and he published three important 

 reports on his work, with descriptions of the fossils by various 

 specialists. After leaving South Africa, he returned to Scotland, 

 but the climate proved too severe for his failing health, and he 

 finally retired to Sydney. He was an excellent observer, full of 

 enthusiasm for our science, and gained the esteem of all who 

 knew him. 



South African geology loses one of its most active workers by 

 the premature death of Herbert Kynaston on June 28th, 1915. 

 He was born on July 19th, 1868, at Durham, and educated at 

 Eton and at King's College, Cambridge. The Worts Travelling- 

 Fund was awarded to him in 1892, and he began his geological 

 career by studying the Cretaceous Gosau Beds of Austria, of which 

 he contributed an account to the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society in 1895. From 1895 to 1902 he was engaged on the 

 Geological Survey of Scotland, and in February 1903 he became 

 Director of the Geological Survey of the Transvaal. Later, on the 

 formation of the Union of South Africa, he assumed the direction 

 of the newly-constituted Geological Survey under the Department 

 of Mines. He carried on his Survey work with enthusiasm and 

 success, and his annual reports were looked forward to no less by 

 the student of pure geology than by the practical miner, whose 

 needs in such a country are naturally paramount. Mr. Kynaston 

 was of a retiring disposition and little known outside his depart- 

 ment, in which he was universally esteemed ; but he took part in 

 the proceedings of the Geological Society of South Africa, and was 

 its President in 1908. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society in 1894. 



The Hon. Robert Marsham (since 1893 Marsham-Town- 

 shend), who was born on November 15th, 1834, and died in 

 April 1915, took a deep interest for many years in the study 

 of stratigraphical geology, and in 1877 presented his valuable 

 collection of British fossils to the British Museum. When in 

 Brazil as Attache at Rio de Janeiro, 1855-59, he obtained some 

 Cretaceous fishes from Ceara, which he also gave to the British 

 Museum. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society 

 in 1859. 



