xlviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [JuDO I912, 



THE ANMVEESARY ADDRESS OF THE PEESIDENT, 

 Prof. William Whitehead Watts, Sc.D., LL.D., M.Sc, F.E.S. 



The Geological Society has unfortunately lost by death during 

 the past year no less than two of its Foreign Members and two 

 Foreign Correspondents. These are : IE. E. Dupont, M. A. 

 Michel-Levy, Prof. G. Stefanescu, and Dr. A. E. Tornebohm. 

 Dr. Charles Abiathar White, also a Foreign Member, died in 1910, 

 but news of his death did not reach us in that year. The Society 

 has also to mourn the loss of twenty -seven Fellows, including four 

 who have served on the Council : Sir Joseph Hooker, a Fellow 

 since 1846 ; Prof. T. Eupert Jones, who joined the Society in 

 1852; Prof. jN^evil Story-Maskelyne, who had been on the roll 

 since 1854 ; and George Maw, whose entry dates to 1864. The 

 names of the other Fellows deceased are: G. Attwood (1872), 

 AVarren Delabere Barnes (1902), F. Braby (1864), Sir John Brigg, 

 M.P. (1875), Eobert Henry Byles (1895), G. E. Coke (1901), the 

 Eev. E. M. Cole (1889), John Eule Daniell (1891), S. F. Emmons 

 (1874), John Eunson (1878), Sir William James Farrer (1878), 

 Charles J. Fauvel (1909), Eev. J. T. Campbell GuUan (1873), 

 Joseph Eichard Haines (1898), Frederick Hovenden (1876), 

 Colonel Charles Kendal-Bushe (1896), Henry Lakin Lawrence 

 (1891), A. Long-bottom (1909), John Nevin (1894), Dr. E. D. 

 Eoberts (1875), William Shone (1874), G. P. Wall (1862), and 

 William White (1894). Some account of the lives and work of 

 these deceased Fellows is given below, where it has been possible 

 to obtain the necessary information. For the notice of M. Michel- 

 Levy, I am indebted to Dr. J. S. Flett ; for that of Sir Joseph 

 Hooker, to Prof. J. W. Judd ; for that of Prof. T. Eupert Jones, to 

 Dr. A. Smith Woodward ; for that on George Attwood, to Prof. T. 

 G. Bonney ; while Dr. Walcot Gibson has been good enough to 

 furnish the short memoir of Mr. Coke, and Dr. Falconer that of 

 Mr. Longbottom. The notice of Prof. C. A. White is taken largely 

 from ' Science,' and that of Prof. Story-Maskelyne mainly from the 

 * Mineralogical Magazine.' 



By the death of Augcste Michel-Levt on September 21 st, 

 1911, the French geological world has lost one of its most distin- 

 guished ornaments. For more than forty years he had been 

 engaged in active geological research, and had figured prominently 



