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It is my duty first to mention those of our fellow-workers whose 

 loss during the past year we have to deplore. Although the number 

 of deceased Members amounts to 23, there are but few whose active 

 cooperation in the special work of the Society has to be recorded. 



The name of Robert Hutton is associated with the earliest days 

 of this Society, of which he was elected a Fellow in 1813. He spent 

 the early years of his life in Dublin, which city he represented in 

 Parliament from 1837 to 1841. He was the friend and associate of 

 Greenough, Buckland, and other founders of this Society, in the 

 proceedings of which he ever took the warmest interest. During 

 various excursions through Ireland, he made a considerable collec- 

 tion of minerals and fossils, which, on his leaving Dublin in 1836, 

 he presented to the Geological Society of Dublin, of which he had 

 been a member since its commencement in 1832. In 1836 he was 

 placed on the Council of our Society, in 1837 served as Secretary, 

 and was one of the Vice-Presidents in 1845 and 1846. He took 

 for many years an active part in the Society, but did not contribute 

 any thing from his pen, although always ready to assist others by 

 his advice and countenance. He was also one of the original pro- 

 moters of the London University (now University College), and was 

 on its Council for 30 years. He was born in 1784, and died in 

 August 1870. 



Colonel Sir Proby T. Cautley, K.C.B. In 1831 four young 

 men, all of whom subsequently became eminent and distinguished, 

 met, at the commencement of their professional and scientific career, 

 at a remote up-station in India. Sir Proby Cautley, General Sir 

 Henry Durand (whose untimely death the nation has had so recently 

 to deplore), General Sir William Baker, Member of Council of India, 

 then lieutenants in the army, and the lamented Hugh Falconer, had 

 their attention drawn by the first-named and by an Indian Prince 

 to the rich stores of mammalian remains in the Tertiary deposits of 

 the Sewalik Hills. They aU entered zealously upon the investiga- 

 tion of this new and unexplored ground ; and, as Dr. Murchison 

 observes, " by the joint labours of Cautley, Falconer, Baker, and 

 Durand, a subtropical mammalian fossil fauna was brought to light, 

 unexampled in richness and extent in any other region then known. 

 It included : — the earliest discovered fossil Qfadrtjmana ; an ex- 

 traordinary number of Proboscidea belonging to Mastodon, Stego- 

 don, Loxodon, and Euelephas ; several extinct species of Rhinoceros, 

 Chalicotherium ; two new subgenera of Hippojpotamits, viz. He.va- 



