﻿Vol. 
  53.] 
  ANNIVERSARY 
  ADDRESS 
  OF 
  THE 
  PRESIDENT. 
  Mi 
  

  

  (San 
  Francisco, 
  1869). 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  significant 
  testimony 
  to 
  his 
  scientific 
  

   eminence 
  that 
  Mount 
  Whitney, 
  the 
  highest 
  mountain 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  

   States, 
  is 
  named 
  after 
  him. 
  His 
  library 
  of 
  geological 
  and 
  geo- 
  

   graphical 
  books 
  is 
  famous 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States. 
  He 
  was 
  elected 
  

   a 
  Foreign 
  Correspondent 
  of 
  this 
  Society 
  in 
  1872, 
  and 
  a 
  Foreign 
  

   Member 
  in 
  1887. 
  He 
  died 
  on 
  August 
  19th, 
  1896. 
  

  

  Baron 
  Constantin 
  von 
  Ettingshausen 
  died 
  at 
  Graz 
  on 
  

   February 
  1st, 
  1897, 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  71. 
  He 
  was 
  originally 
  a 
  

   Doctor 
  of 
  Medicine, 
  but 
  devoted 
  all 
  his 
  time 
  and 
  energies 
  to 
  

   botany 
  and 
  palaeontology. 
  In 
  1876 
  he 
  was 
  summoned 
  to 
  London 
  

   to 
  prepare 
  a 
  palseobotanical 
  collection 
  at 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  

   Museum, 
  and 
  subsequently 
  he 
  was 
  repeatedly 
  here 
  re-arranging 
  

   collections 
  in 
  the 
  Museum. 
  He 
  was 
  the 
  author 
  of 
  several 
  works 
  

   on 
  botanical 
  subjects, 
  and 
  wrote 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  papers, 
  which 
  

   were 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society 
  and 
  of 
  

   this 
  and 
  other 
  learned 
  Societies. 
  He 
  held, 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  his 
  

   death, 
  the 
  Professorship 
  of 
  Botany 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Graz, 
  

   and 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Foreign 
  Correspondent 
  of 
  this 
  Society 
  in 
  1884. 
  

   Previously 
  to 
  this, 
  in 
  1882, 
  an 
  Award 
  from 
  the 
  Barlow-Jameson 
  

   Fund 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  him 
  in 
  recognition 
  of 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  his 
  

   work 
  in 
  palaeobotany. 
  

  

  Yiscount 
  Gough, 
  F.L.S., 
  was 
  born 
  on 
  January 
  18th, 
  1815. 
  

   He 
  was 
  the 
  sou 
  of 
  Field-Marshal 
  Hugh 
  Gough, 
  who 
  brilliantly 
  

   distinguished 
  himself 
  in 
  the 
  field 
  in 
  India 
  and 
  annexed 
  the 
  Panjab 
  

   to 
  the 
  British 
  dominions. 
  After 
  graduating 
  B.A. 
  at 
  Trinity 
  College, 
  

   Dublin, 
  in 
  1836, 
  and 
  M.A. 
  in 
  1840, 
  he 
  entered 
  the 
  Army 
  ; 
  and 
  

   after 
  spending 
  some 
  time 
  in 
  the 
  Grenadier 
  Guards 
  he 
  went 
  on 
  active 
  

   service, 
  and 
  acquitted 
  himself 
  in 
  China 
  with 
  much 
  distinction. 
  He 
  

   was 
  elected 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  this 
  Society 
  in 
  1850, 
  was 
  Yice-President 
  

   of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Dublin 
  Society, 
  and 
  always 
  took 
  an 
  active 
  interest 
  

   in 
  science. 
  Viscount 
  Gough 
  died 
  at 
  his 
  residence, 
  Booterstown, 
  

   Co. 
  Dublin, 
  on 
  June 
  2nd, 
  1895. 
  

  

  Jabez 
  Church, 
  M.Inst.C.E., 
  who 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  this 
  

   Society 
  in 
  1881, 
  was 
  born 
  at 
  Chelmsford 
  in 
  1845, 
  and 
  was 
  the 
  son 
  

   and 
  grandson 
  of 
  well-known 
  engineers 
  bearing 
  the 
  same 
  name. 
  

   He 
  designed 
  and 
  constructed 
  many 
  important 
  works, 
  chiefly 
  in 
  

   connexion 
  with 
  the 
  water-supply 
  to 
  large 
  towns. 
  He 
  was 
  for 
  two 
  

   years 
  in 
  succession 
  (1882 
  and 
  1883) 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  of 
  

  

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