part 1] AXX1YERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. U 



THE ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 

 George William Lamplttg-h, F.R.S. 



It is now my sad duty to review the incessant toll of Death upon 

 our ranks. In preparing brief records of the service done by those 

 who have finished work during the past year, I have received aid 

 from many friends, including Mr. W. Whitaker, Dr. A. Harker, 

 Dr. A. Smith Woodward, Mr. T. C. Cantrill, Dr. J. S. Flett, 

 Dr. F. L. Kitchin, and Mr. B. Lightfoot. 



The War has deprived us during the year of five Fellows ; one 

 tilled in action in France ; one missing — presumed killed — in 

 Gallipoli ; two, dead from sickness contracted during service ; 

 one, drowned at sea. Their lives were demanded, and given at the 

 urgent call of National duty, and Science is inestimably the poorer 

 for the loss. 



Lieut. C. H. CrararNGTON, a Fellow of six years' standing, was 

 born on June 7th, 1889, educated at the University College 

 .Schools and entered Universit} 1 - College, London, in 1905, where 

 he distinguished himself as a student of Geology, gaining the 

 University Scholarship in Geology in 1907. He took his degree 

 in 1909, obtaining first-class honours in Geology. In 1910 he 

 was appointed to the staff of H.M. Geological Survey as Geologist, 

 .and during the ensuing four years was engaged in the survey of 

 the South Midlands around the borders of the Warwickshire Coal- 

 field, where he did excellent work. His results have been published 

 .as yet in abstract only, but will appear more fully when the 

 Geological Survey memoirs on the district are issued. Besides this 

 official Avork, Cunnington had made much progress in his spare 

 time in an investigation of the faunal sequence in the Carboniferous 

 Limestone of certain parts of South Wales. His field-work was 

 marked by thoroughness and penetration, which always held his 

 vigorous speculative faculty under control. His high qualifica- 

 tions and love of his work would have carried him far in the path 

 of geological research if he had lived. An ardent member of the 

 0. T. C. before the War, he entered the Army soon after the out- 

 break of hostilities, and was sent in 1915 to Gallipoli on special 

 Military duty. He served afterwards at the Front in France, and 



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