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  ADDRESS 
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  THE 
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  THE 
  ANNIVERSARY 
  ADDRESS 
  OP 
  THE 
  PRESIDENT, 
  

  

  Professor 
  A. 
  C. 
  Ramsay, 
  P.R.S., 
  <fec. 
  

  

  Before 
  entering 
  on 
  the 
  subject 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  chosen 
  for 
  my 
  An- 
  

   niversary 
  Address, 
  in 
  accordance 
  with 
  the 
  custom 
  of 
  the 
  Society, 
  I 
  

   must 
  now 
  read 
  the 
  Obituary 
  Notices 
  of 
  those 
  Members 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  

   who 
  had 
  distinguished 
  themselves 
  in 
  the 
  prosecution 
  of 
  our 
  science, 
  

   and 
  whose 
  deaths 
  were 
  reported 
  to 
  us- 
  between 
  January 
  1863 
  and 
  

   January 
  1864. 
  

  

  Lucas 
  Barrett, 
  Director 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Jamaica, 
  was 
  

   born 
  in 
  London, 
  on 
  the 
  14th 
  November, 
  1837. 
  He 
  went 
  to 
  school 
  

   with 
  Mr. 
  P. 
  Aston, 
  at 
  Royston, 
  where 
  he 
  acquired 
  his 
  first 
  love 
  for 
  

   geology 
  by 
  collecting 
  fossils 
  of 
  the 
  Chalk. 
  Afterwards 
  he 
  was 
  at 
  Uni- 
  

   versity 
  College 
  School, 
  and 
  in 
  his 
  holidays 
  became 
  a 
  frequent 
  visitor 
  

   at 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  where 
  he 
  was 
  a 
  great 
  favourite 
  with 
  the 
  

   naturalists. 
  In 
  1853-54 
  he 
  passed 
  a 
  year 
  at 
  EbersdorfT, 
  studying 
  

   German 
  and 
  chemistry, 
  and 
  made 
  a 
  geological 
  tour 
  in 
  Bavaria. 
  In 
  

   1855 
  he 
  accompanied 
  Mr. 
  M 
  'Andrew 
  in 
  a 
  dredging-excursion 
  from 
  

   the 
  Shetlands 
  to 
  Norway 
  and 
  beyond 
  the 
  Arctic 
  Circle, 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  

   kept 
  a 
  register 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  operations, 
  after 
  the 
  method 
  of 
  Prof. 
  E. 
  

   Eorbes, 
  and 
  made 
  some 
  good 
  observations 
  on 
  living 
  Terebratulce. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  he 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society 
  

   of 
  London, 
  being 
  the 
  youngest 
  member 
  yet 
  admitted, 
  and 
  was 
  made 
  

   Curator 
  of 
  the 
  Woodwardian 
  Museum 
  by 
  Professor 
  Sedgwick. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  following 
  spring 
  he 
  went 
  out 
  to 
  Greenland, 
  in 
  the 
  hope 
  of 
  

   extending 
  his 
  researches 
  in 
  the 
  deep-sea 
  zones. 
  This 
  expedition 
  

   was 
  attended 
  with 
  considerable 
  hardship 
  and 
  expense 
  ; 
  but 
  no 
  record 
  

   remains, 
  beyond 
  the 
  suites 
  of 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  at 
  

   Cambridge, 
  and 
  at 
  Isleworth. 
  

  

  In 
  1857 
  he 
  made 
  another 
  drcdging-cruise 
  with 
  Mr. 
  M' 
  Andrew 
  to 
  

   the 
  north 
  coast 
  of 
  Spain, 
  and 
  added 
  considerably 
  to 
  his 
  collection 
  of 
  

   Hadiata, 
  which 
  remains 
  intact, 
  at 
  Cambridge. 
  

  

  In 
  these 
  years, 
  1856-58, 
  he 
  delivered 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  geological 
  lec- 
  

   tures 
  for 
  Professor 
  Sedgwick, 
  by 
  whose 
  wish 
  he 
  had 
  entered 
  his 
  name 
  

   and 
  kept 
  one 
  term 
  at 
  Trinity. 
  Yery 
  large 
  additions 
  were 
  made 
  to 
  

   the 
  Cambridge 
  Museum 
  in 
  his 
  time, 
  and 
  he 
  was 
  the 
  discoverer 
  of 
  

   bones 
  of 
  Birds 
  in 
  the 
  Upper 
  Greensand, 
  and 
  of 
  some 
  new 
  and 
  re- 
  

   markable 
  forms 
  of 
  Pterodactyle. 
  He 
  also 
  prepared 
  a 
  geological 
  

   edition 
  of 
  the 
  Ordnance 
  Map 
  of 
  Cambridgeshire, 
  which 
  was 
  published 
  

   by 
  Macmillan. 
  

  

  In 
  March 
  1859 
  Mr. 
  Barrett 
  was 
  appointed 
  to 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  the 
  

   Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Jamaica 
  on 
  the 
  retirement 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Wall, 
  and 
  

   thus 
  obtained 
  a 
  more 
  extended 
  sphere 
  of 
  occupation 
  for 
  his 
  enter- 
  

   prising 
  talents. 
  By 
  the 
  following 
  November 
  he 
  had 
  made 
  such 
  pro- 
  

   gress 
  with 
  the 
  survey 
  of 
  Jamaica 
  as 
  to 
  have 
  finished 
  the 
  first 
  sheet 
  

   of 
  a 
  geological 
  map, 
  and 
  to 
  send 
  to 
  this 
  Society 
  a 
  notice 
  of 
  the 
  Cre- 
  

   taceous 
  formations 
  of 
  the 
  island. 
  (Quarterly 
  Journal, 
  vol. 
  xvi. 
  p. 
  324.) 
  

  

  He 
  had 
  ascertained 
  that 
  the 
  copper-bearing 
  slates 
  and 
  purple 
  

   conglomerates, 
  with 
  their 
  interbedded 
  porphyries 
  and 
  hornblende- 
  

  

  