Vol. 68.] ANNIVERSAET ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. ci 



I have now reached the end of my second year of office as your 

 President, and it is my duty to lay down that office and to ask you 

 to give to him whom you have elected to succeed me the same loyal 

 support and kindly consideration that you have accorded to me. 

 Dr. Strahan has served on the Council for ten years, and has acted 

 first as Vice-President and later as Treasurer. It is in the latter 

 capacity that his services to you will be freshest in your memory. 

 It will suffice to say that he has brought the Society through a year 

 of exceptional expenditure with a surplus, and that he has carried 

 out, with the maximum of economy and the minimum of incon- 

 venience, the details of the greatest change in the Society's 

 Apartments that they have hitherto seen. It is not for me to 

 dwell on the scientific work or attainments of your future 

 President ; they are too well known to you to need any words of 

 mine. But I feel that I leave the afiairs of the Society, its 

 scientific influence, the capable conduct of its business, and the 

 guidance of its policy, in the hands o£ one of the most competent 

 of British Geologists. 



In conclusion, I should like to thank the Officers of the Society, 

 both temporary and permanent, for the loyal support and cordial 

 co-operation that they have given me during my period of office. 

 Their consideration, and the kindly toleration of the whole 

 Fellowship of the Society, have made my term as your President 

 one of the pleasantest periods of my life, and one that it will 

 always be a delight to look back upon. 



