ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. XXvii 



THE ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



Gentlemen, — Perhaps no single year since the origin of the 

 Society has been so marked by the deaths of eminent members as 

 that Which is now terminated. To names conspicuous in literature, 

 such as Hallam and Staunton, wo must add the authors of our 

 greatest engineering triumphs, Stephenson and Brunei, — naturalists 

 of the highest rank, as Broderip and Horsfield, — geologists, mine- 

 ralogists, and palaeontologists, as Anstice, Brown, Came, Cathcart, 

 Loftus, and Stutchbury. These and others have passed from our 

 list of Ordinary Members. From our Honorary list we lose the 

 Be v. W. Turner and Mr. David Mushet, and from our Foreign list 

 I'ini'pssor Cleveland, Baron Humboldt, and the Archduke John of 

 Austria. To several of these Members of our Society tho Transac- 

 tions and Proceedings are indebted for useful contributions ; — to 

 others we, in common with tho whole literary world, aro under 

 lasting obligation. 



Mr. William Anstice, resident in Shropshire, made good use of 

 the facilities which he possessed of exploring tho coal-fields of that 

 country, and was rewarded by the discovery of fossil insects of the 

 natural family of Curculionida), ono of which worthily bears his 

 name ; and of Limulidae*. 



Richard Bright, M.D., found time, in tho early part of that 

 medical career which afterwards became famous, to notice the geo- 

 logical phenomena in the district with which his family has long 

 been connected, and has communicated to our Society a paper on 

 tho strata in tho vicinity of Bristol, embracing the scries from the 

 Lias to the Old Red Sandstone on the banks of the Avonf. Died 

 December 16, 1858. 



Mr. YVjli.tam Joun Broderip, slightly the senior of Dr. Buckland 

 in Oxford, had the merit of insisting that eminent geologist in his 

 earliest researches. Though Zoology, and especially the Molluscous 

 animals, absorbed bis attention in later years, is connexion with 

 the Zoological Society, and the • Penny Cyclopaedia.' which was 

 largelj enriched by contributions from bis ready and accurate pen j 

 In- found time to notice some fossi] Crustaceans and Radiate dis- 

 covered at Lyme Etegis$, and to assist theoretical geology l»y •■» 

 valuable Table of the situation and depths at which recent genera 

 of marine and estaarj shells have bean obearved§. Died February 

 27, 1859. 



Mr. .Ioiin Miaiw n r paid close attention to the Pleistocene dopants 

 in the vicinity of his residence &1 Stairway, and collected i remark - 



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