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THE ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 

 Aubbey Stbahax, Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 



The twelve months which have elapsed since our last Anniversary 

 Meeting have not passed without the loss of many eminent 

 geologists, both at home and abroad. No fewer than six of the 

 illustrious foreigners whom we were proud to include in our 

 lists have been removed by death : Rosenbusch, Fritsch, Credner, 

 Tschernyschew, and Baltzer, are gone from among our Foreign 

 Members, and in Cocchi we have lost a Foreign Correspondent. 



With regard to the following obituaries I am indebted to Prof. 

 Gregory, Prof. Judd, Dr. Henry Woodward, Dr. Harker, and 

 Dr. A- S. Woodward, for each supplying an appreciation of the 

 life and work of an old friend. To the kindness of Dr. Karpinsky 

 I owe the information on which the notice of Tschernyschew 

 is based. 



The death of Geheimrath Professor Haeet Rosenbusch 

 removes one who had long been an acknowledged master in an 

 important branch of modern geology. His great-grandfather and 

 grandfather had been miners in the Harz, but his father, Georg 

 Wilhelm Heinrich Rosenbusch, removed to Einbeck in Hanover, 

 where he became master of an orphan-asylum. He was married to 

 Luise Frederike Henriette, by birth Piischel. Then* eldest son 

 was born at Einbeck on June 24, 1836, and was named Karl 

 Harry Ferdinand. The English Christian name, by which he 

 preferred to be known, was at that time not uncommon in Hanover, 

 a memory of the long political connexion between the two countries. 

 A second son, August Enrik Eduard, became afterwards an 

 Inspector of Telegraphs in the British service ; and there was a 

 third boy, who lived only ten months. 



The father died in 1843, leaving his widow in very straitened 

 circumstances. She contrived, however, by hard work, to send her 

 two boys to the local grammar-school, where they made good 

 progress, and added to the scanty resources of the family by helping 

 their younger schoolfellows in their lessons. The early predilection 

 of young Rosenbusch was for languages, and he became indeed an 

 accomplished linguist, speaking French, Italian, Spanish, Portu- 

 guese, and English. In due course he entered the University of 

 Gottingen as a student of philology ; but his means did not enable 



