﻿"Vol. 64.] ANNIVEESAET ADDEE8S OP THE PRESIDEN-T. CXui 



Among those no longer living whom the Society holds in high 

 regard for their palseontological contributions we number Hugh 

 Falconer, whose papers on the species of Mastodon and Elephant 

 appeared in the Quarterly Journal ; J. W. Hulke, so complete a 

 master of the structure of the saurian organisms found in Kimeridge 

 and Wealden formations ; J. W. Salter, one of the most brilliant 

 and versatile of all the contributors to British palseontology ; 

 Thomas Davidson, the acknowledged chief of brachiopodists ; 

 P. Martin Duncan, whose labours on fossil corals and echinoids 

 enabled him to offer suggestive generalizations as to former 

 geographical changes : Eobert Etheridge, specially distinguished for 

 his intimate knowledge of Mesozoic fossils ; Thomas Wright, whose 

 work among the invertebrata of the Jurassic formations was fitly 

 recognized by the award to him of the Wollaston Medal ; and 

 H. A. Nicholson, whose papers on graptolites and other forms placed 

 him high among the students of Palaeozoic fossils. 



Although death has removed from us many of our most illustrious 

 colleagues in all departments of Palaeontology, we are still able to 

 count in our membership a strong phalanx of palseontologists. The 

 structure of extinct vertebrates has been ably discussed by Prof. 

 Seeley in the valuable series of papers which he has communicated 

 to the Society since 1863. Mr, E. T. Newton has given us some 

 interesting papers on fossil fishes and on the mammalia of the newer 

 Pliocene deposits of this country. Dr. Smith "Woodward and 

 Dr. Traquair have made themselves masters of fossil Ichthyology. 

 Dr. C. "W. Andrews has given us a discussion of the Plesiosaurian 

 skull. Mr. Lydekker, who began his contributions in 1885, has 

 enriched the Quarterly Journal with a large number of papers 

 dealing with Mesozoic reptiles and higher vertebrates from later 

 formations. Dr. Henry "Woodward has long been at the head of 

 those whose special labours lie among extinct Crustacea ; and 

 Prof. Rupert Jones is equally acknowledged to be our highest 

 authority on ostracods and foraminifera. 



The inevitable specialization which now attends the development 

 of every branch of our science has led many palseontologists to 

 confine their researches not only to definite and restricted groups 

 of fossils, but to those from a special and limited stratigraphical 

 range. The Mesozoic madreporaria have been looked after by R. P. 

 Tomes ; the polyzoa from the Palaeozoic rocks by G. W. Shrubsole 

 and G. R. Vine; those from Mesozoic formations by Mr. E. A. 

 "Walford and Mr. Vine ; those from the North of Italy and other 



