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  ANNIVERSARY 
  ADDRESS 
  OF 
  THE 
  PRESIDENT. 
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  THE 
  ANNIVERSARY 
  ADDRESS 
  OF 
  THE 
  PRESIDENT, 
  

  

  Henry 
  Hicks, 
  M.D., 
  E.R.S. 
  

  

  Gentlemen,- 
  

  

  Since 
  our 
  last 
  Anniversary 
  Meeting 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  my 
  painful 
  

   duty 
  to 
  announce 
  from 
  this 
  chair 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  the 
  revered 
  and 
  much- 
  

   beloved 
  Father 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  and 
  a 
  former 
  President, 
  Sir 
  Joseph 
  

   Prestwich, 
  and 
  also 
  that 
  of 
  a 
  much-respected 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  Council, 
  

   and 
  Vice-President, 
  Prof. 
  A. 
  H. 
  Green. 
  

  

  "We 
  have 
  further 
  to 
  lament 
  the 
  deaths 
  of 
  some 
  distinguished 
  

   Foreign 
  Members 
  and 
  Foreign 
  Correspondents, 
  namely 
  : 
  — 
  M. 
  Auguste 
  

   Daubree, 
  Prof. 
  H. 
  E. 
  Beyrich, 
  Prof. 
  J. 
  Dwight 
  Whitney, 
  and 
  

   Baron 
  C. 
  von 
  Ettingshausen 
  ; 
  and 
  also 
  of 
  several 
  Fellows 
  of 
  the 
  

   Society 
  who 
  have 
  done 
  much 
  for 
  the 
  advancement 
  of 
  science. 
  

  

  Sir 
  Joseph 
  Prestwich, 
  who 
  was 
  descended 
  from 
  an 
  old 
  Lanca- 
  

   shire 
  family, 
  was 
  born 
  at 
  Pensbury, 
  Clapham, 
  on 
  March 
  12th, 
  1812. 
  

   He 
  was 
  educated 
  at 
  various 
  preparatory 
  schools, 
  and 
  in 
  Paris, 
  and 
  

   finally 
  at 
  University 
  College, 
  London, 
  which 
  had 
  then 
  been 
  only 
  

   recently 
  established. 
  His 
  early 
  taste 
  for 
  scientific 
  investigation 
  

   was 
  shown 
  in 
  the 
  avidity 
  with 
  which 
  he 
  took 
  up 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  

   chemistry 
  and 
  natural 
  philosophy, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  interesting 
  to 
  note 
  that 
  

   the 
  love 
  of 
  experimental 
  science 
  first 
  stimulated 
  by 
  the 
  teachings 
  of 
  

   Drs. 
  Turner 
  and 
  Lardner, 
  at 
  University 
  College, 
  continued 
  through- 
  

   out 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  his 
  life. 
  Clearly 
  this 
  inclination, 
  under 
  ordinary 
  

   circumstances, 
  would 
  have 
  led 
  him 
  to 
  adopt 
  a 
  scientific 
  profession 
  

   rather 
  than 
  a 
  commercial 
  calling 
  ; 
  however, 
  it 
  was 
  otherwise 
  

   ordained, 
  and 
  he 
  had 
  to 
  join 
  the 
  business 
  of 
  his 
  father, 
  a 
  well- 
  

   known 
  wine-merchant 
  in 
  Mark 
  Lane. 
  With 
  the 
  house 
  and 
  business 
  

   he 
  remained 
  closely 
  connected 
  for 
  nearly 
  forty 
  years. 
  Happily, 
  

   his 
  commercial 
  avocations 
  to 
  some 
  degree 
  aided, 
  instead 
  of 
  restrict- 
  

   ing, 
  his 
  pursuit 
  of 
  geological 
  studies. 
  He 
  had 
  to 
  make 
  frequent 
  

   visits 
  to 
  France 
  and 
  Belgium, 
  in 
  both 
  of 
  which 
  countries 
  he 
  formed 
  

   lasting 
  friendships 
  with 
  the 
  leading 
  geologists 
  and 
  palaeontologists 
  

   of 
  the 
  day 
  ; 
  and 
  he 
  made 
  himself 
  personally 
  familiar 
  with 
  the 
  

   actual 
  strata 
  and 
  fossils 
  which 
  they 
  had 
  described. 
  Not 
  only 
  so, 
  

   but 
  his 
  business 
  among 
  the 
  country 
  connexions 
  of 
  the 
  firm 
  carried 
  

   him 
  to 
  nearly 
  every 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  Kingdom, 
  and 
  the 
  hours 
  

   unclaimed 
  by 
  his 
  engagements 
  were 
  enthusiastically 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  

  

  