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THE ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 



Alfred Harkek, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. 



The list of Fellows removed by death during the year now past 

 includes not a few familiar names, which have long held a place on 

 the roll of the Society. Half of the Fellows whom I have selected 

 for brief notice had passed the age of threescore and ten. I have 

 received kind help from Prof. Marr, Dr. H. Woodward, Dr. Smith 

 Woodward, Prof. J. B. Harrison, Dr. J. W. Evans, Prof. Cullis, 

 and Mr. Lake, to whom I tender nrv thanks. 



Henri Emile Sauvage, who died on January 3rd, 1917, in 

 his seventy-fifth year, had been a Foreign Correspondent of the 

 Geological Society since 1879. He was always interested in fishes, 

 and, after some preliminary researches as a student and independent 

 worker,, he began his official scientific career in 1875 as Assistant- 

 Ichthyologist in the Paris Museum of Natural Histoiy, where he 

 remained until 1883. In the latter year he founded the Station 

 Aquicole at Boulogne-sur-Mer, which he directed almost until 

 the end. He also assumed charge of the Municipal Museum at 

 Boulogne, and took a foremost place in the intellectual activities 

 of the Boulonnais. While engaged in studying existing fishes, 

 both from the purely scientific and from the economic point of 

 view, he continually devoted his leisure to the interpretation of the 

 fossil remains of extinct fishes, and made many important contri- 

 butions to Palaeontology and Stratigraphical Geology. Besides 

 smaller papers on fish-remains from the Secondary and Tertiary 

 formations of France, Dr. Sauvage prepared two large memoirs on 

 the fishes of the French Carboniferous and Permian formations in 

 connexion with the survey of the coalfields. He also wrote on 

 Tertiary fishes from Sicily and Algeria, and on Jurassic fishes from 

 Northern Spain. He was likewise interested in fossil reptiles, and 

 described several important specimens (especially from the Jurassic 

 of the Boulonnais). A complete list of his papers up to 1893 

 was published in that year at Boulogne. Dr. Sauvage was an 

 indefatigable worker, whose enthusiasm for his science never 

 flagged, and, even when waning power prevented him from doing 

 much original research, he continued until the end to compile 

 useful abstracts of current literature for the ' Revue de Paleo- 

 zoologie.' He was an attractive personality, whose loss is mourned 

 by a large circle of devoted friends. [A. S. W.] 



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