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THE ANMYERSARY ADDEESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 



Henry Hicks, M.D., E.R.S. 



Gentlemen, — 



Many well-known names have been removed bj death from our 

 list during the past j'ear, and among them we have to regret the loss 

 of such active workers in science as Prof. A. L. 0. Des Cloizeaux, 

 the eminent French mineralogist and WoUaston Medallist ; Prof. 

 E. D. Cope, the distinguished American palaeontologist and biologist 

 and Eigsby Medallist ; our much revered friend, the Rev. P. B. 

 Brodie, who had been for 63 years a Fellow of the Society, was a 

 Murchison Medallist, and an indefatigable worker in the cause of 

 Science to the end of his long life ; the amiable and patient Samuel 

 AUport, a Lyell Medallist, and one of the pioneers in microscopic 

 petrology ; Prof. Steenstrup, of Copenhagen, elected a Foreign 

 Member of this Society in 1879 ; Dr. T. C. Winkler, of Haarlem, 

 and Dr. 0. F. von Fraas, Foreign Correspondents. Of those 

 who had taken an active part in the work of the Society or had 

 contributed papers to the Quarterly Journal, I must specially 

 mention the veteran J. Carrick Moore, who recently died at the age 

 of 93, was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1838, served no less 

 than 26 years on the Council and 7 years as Secretary — a co-worker 

 with Sedgwick, Murchison, and Lyell in the heroic days of British 

 geology. Also the genial, versatile and highly-accomplished Pro- 

 fessor at Trinity College, Dublin, Samuel Haughton ; the Rev. Dr. 

 Robert Hunter ; the Rev. J. E. Cross ; Thomas Tate ; Gr. T. Clark ; 

 and Lt.-Colonel Cooper King. Among those who do not appear 

 to have contributed papers, but had achieved distinction in other 

 branches of Science, occur the names of Sir A. WoUaston Franks, 

 the learned archaeologist and President of the Society of Antiquaries ; 

 Sir James Ramsay Gibson-Maitland, one of the leading piscicul- 

 turists of the day, and a not unfrequent attendant at our meetings ; 

 Prof. Henry Drummond, the popular scientific writer ; Sir Henry 

 Ayers, who was seven times Premier of South Australia ; Mr. James 

 Heywood, the colleague of Richard Cobden in the establishment of 

 the Manchester Athenaeum, and who was mainly instrumental 

 when in Parliament in obtaining the abolition of theological tests 

 at Universities ; and Mr. Samuel Laing, who was second wrangler 

 and second Smith's Prizeman in 1832, a scientific writer of much 



