﻿ANNIVERSARY 
  ADDRESS 
  OF 
  THE 
  PRESIDENT. 
  47 
  

  

  of 
  his 
  death. 
  He 
  was 
  educated 
  at 
  Eton 
  and 
  at 
  Christ 
  Church, 
  Ox- 
  

   ford, 
  taking 
  his 
  degree 
  in 
  1828. 
  Sir 
  Philip 
  was 
  a 
  Deputy-Lieutenant 
  

   and 
  Justice 
  of 
  the 
  Peace 
  for 
  Cheshire, 
  and 
  Lieutenant-Colonel 
  of 
  the 
  

   Cheshire 
  Yeomanry 
  Cavalry 
  ; 
  he 
  was 
  senior 
  elected 
  Trustee 
  of 
  the 
  

   British 
  Museum, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  Trustees 
  of 
  the 
  Eoyal 
  College 
  of 
  

   Surgeons 
  of 
  London, 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Senate 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  

   London, 
  and 
  also 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  original 
  Trustees 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Asso- 
  

   ciation. 
  

  

  Sir 
  Philip 
  Egerton 
  was 
  a 
  distinguished 
  Fellow 
  of. 
  both 
  the 
  Eoyal 
  

   and 
  Geological 
  Societies, 
  to 
  both 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  contributed 
  many 
  

   valuable 
  papers, 
  especially 
  the 
  latter, 
  mostly 
  connected 
  with 
  his 
  

   favourite 
  subject, 
  fossil 
  ichthyology, 
  in 
  which 
  branch 
  of 
  palae- 
  

   ontology 
  he 
  stood 
  preeminent. 
  When 
  at 
  Christ 
  Church, 
  Oxford, 
  

   he 
  studied 
  geology 
  under 
  Buckland 
  and 
  Conybeare, 
  and 
  then 
  com- 
  

   menced 
  collecting 
  fossil 
  fishes 
  in 
  conjunction 
  with 
  his 
  early 
  friend 
  

   and 
  college-companion 
  Lord 
  Cole, 
  now 
  Earl 
  of 
  Enniskilleu. 
  Both 
  

   undertook 
  a 
  lengthened 
  tour 
  through 
  Germany, 
  Switzerland, 
  and 
  

   Italy 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  study 
  and 
  collecting. 
  The 
  joint 
  collecting 
  

   continued 
  until 
  the 
  day 
  of 
  his 
  death; 
  and 
  for 
  fifty-five 
  years 
  Sir 
  

   Philip 
  Egerton 
  and 
  Lord 
  Enniskillen 
  ceased 
  not 
  to 
  possess 
  them- 
  

   selves, 
  whenever 
  opportunity 
  occurred, 
  with 
  every 
  thing 
  bearing 
  

   upon 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  fossil 
  ichthyology, 
  thus 
  amassing 
  together 
  two 
  

   of 
  the 
  largest 
  collections 
  ever 
  made 
  by 
  private 
  individuals. 
  The 
  

   collection 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  Earl 
  of 
  Enniskillen, 
  at 
  Florence 
  Court, 
  

   has 
  been 
  purchased 
  by 
  the 
  Trustees 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  and 
  is 
  

   now 
  being 
  removed 
  to 
  the 
  new 
  Natural 
  History 
  Museum 
  in 
  Crom- 
  

   well 
  Road, 
  South 
  Kensington. 
  It 
  is 
  also 
  decided 
  that 
  the 
  equally 
  

   magnificent 
  and 
  unique 
  collection 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Sir 
  Philip 
  Eger- 
  

   ton, 
  and 
  now 
  at 
  Oulton 
  Park, 
  shall 
  also 
  form 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  

   collection, 
  thus 
  preserving 
  and 
  handing 
  down 
  to 
  posterity 
  the 
  united 
  

   collection 
  of 
  these 
  two 
  distinguished 
  naturalists 
  ; 
  and 
  be 
  it 
  remem- 
  

   bered 
  that 
  Sir 
  Philip 
  Egerton 
  and 
  Lord 
  Enniskillen 
  collected 
  nothing 
  

   but 
  fossil 
  fishes, 
  devoting 
  their 
  energies 
  and 
  means 
  only 
  to 
  one 
  great 
  

   end, 
  that 
  of 
  forming 
  a 
  collection 
  and 
  obtaining 
  every 
  thing 
  known 
  

   relative 
  to 
  fossil 
  ichthyology 
  : 
  how 
  they 
  have 
  succeeded, 
  all 
  palaeon- 
  

   tologists 
  both 
  in 
  Europe 
  and 
  America 
  fully 
  know. 
  The 
  ardour 
  of 
  

   the 
  two 
  collectors 
  never 
  ceased, 
  and 
  the 
  collections 
  that 
  thus 
  went 
  

   on 
  side 
  by 
  side 
  are 
  undoubtedly 
  the 
  most 
  complete 
  that 
  have 
  ever 
  

   been 
  formed 
  by 
  private 
  individuals, 
  and 
  mutually 
  illustrate 
  each 
  

   other. 
  Sir 
  Philip 
  Egerton 
  enriched 
  palaeontological 
  literature 
  by 
  the 
  

   publication 
  of 
  no 
  Jess 
  than 
  seventy-three 
  papers 
  upon 
  Eossil 
  Pishes 
  

   alone, 
  six 
  upon 
  Pteptilia, 
  and 
  two 
  upon 
  " 
  Cave-remains." 
  Most 
  of 
  

   Sir 
  Philip's 
  papers 
  were 
  communicated 
  to 
  our 
  Societ} 
  T 
  , 
  and 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Transactions 
  ' 
  and 
  the 
  ' 
  Quarterly 
  Journal 
  ; 
  ' 
  he 
  

   also 
  contributed 
  to 
  the 
  ' 
  Geological 
  Magazine.' 
  The 
  Memoirs 
  and 
  

   Decades 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  were 
  continually 
  being 
  enriched 
  

   by 
  his 
  descriptions 
  : 
  in 
  these 
  volumes 
  five 
  whole 
  decades, 
  descriptive 
  

   of 
  fifty 
  species, 
  were 
  entirely 
  prepared 
  and 
  published 
  through 
  the 
  

   labours 
  and 
  learning 
  of 
  Sir 
  Philip 
  Egerton. 
  These 
  memoirs, 
  and 
  

   many 
  papers 
  contributed 
  to 
  the 
  above-named 
  Societies 
  from 
  the 
  

  

  