﻿ANNIVERSARY 
  ADDRESS 
  OE 
  THE 
  PRESIDENT. 
  57 
  

  

  From 
  1817 
  to 
  1835 
  he 
  mostly 
  resided 
  at 
  Paris, 
  and 
  during 
  that 
  

   time 
  made 
  many 
  long 
  excursions 
  through 
  France, 
  Germany, 
  Austria, 
  

   Hungary, 
  Italy, 
  &c, 
  and 
  for 
  a 
  short 
  time 
  resided 
  in 
  Switzerland. 
  

   When 
  travelling 
  in 
  South 
  Transylvania 
  in 
  1824 
  he 
  was 
  nearly 
  

   killed 
  by 
  his 
  servants, 
  they 
  having 
  put 
  poison 
  in 
  his 
  chocolate 
  one 
  

   morning. 
  When 
  he 
  became 
  very 
  ill 
  they 
  left 
  him 
  at 
  an 
  isolated 
  

   inn 
  on 
  the 
  Hungarian 
  frontier, 
  departing 
  with 
  his 
  horses, 
  carriage, 
  

   and 
  other 
  effects. 
  

  

  In 
  1829 
  he 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Foreign 
  Member 
  of 
  this 
  Society. 
  

  

  He 
  was 
  present 
  at 
  the 
  revolution 
  in 
  Paris 
  of 
  July 
  1830 
  ; 
  but 
  on 
  

   the 
  breaking 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  cholera 
  in 
  1833, 
  he 
  returned 
  to 
  Austria. 
  

  

  With 
  the 
  help 
  of 
  MM. 
  Jobert 
  and 
  Hozet, 
  in 
  the 
  years 
  1830-31 
  

   he 
  published 
  the 
  three 
  volumes 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  Journal 
  de 
  Geologic' 
  In 
  

   1832 
  his 
  ' 
  Memoires 
  geologiques 
  et 
  pale'ontologiques 
  ' 
  appeared 
  ; 
  and 
  

   in 
  1836 
  his 
  ' 
  Guide 
  du 
  Geologue 
  voyageur,' 
  in 
  two 
  volumes. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  years 
  1836, 
  '37/38 
  he 
  made 
  three 
  journeys 
  into 
  Tur- 
  

   key, 
  publishing 
  the 
  results 
  in 
  four 
  volumes 
  (at 
  Paris) 
  in 
  1840 
  ; 
  and 
  

   in 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  he 
  pubb.shed 
  his 
  ' 
  Esquisse 
  geologique 
  de 
  la 
  Turquie 
  

   d'Europe.' 
  

  

  In 
  1841 
  he 
  became 
  a 
  citizen 
  of 
  Vienna 
  and 
  an 
  Austrian, 
  and 
  was 
  

   present 
  during 
  the 
  revolution 
  in 
  that 
  city 
  of 
  March 
  1848. 
  

  

  In 
  1847 
  the 
  Council 
  of 
  this 
  Society 
  awarded 
  him 
  the 
  Wollaston 
  

   Palladium 
  Medal 
  for 
  the 
  zeal, 
  intelligence, 
  and 
  perseverance 
  with 
  

   which 
  he 
  devoted 
  himself 
  to 
  geological 
  inquiries, 
  both 
  in 
  the 
  field 
  

   and 
  in 
  the 
  study, 
  during 
  thirty 
  years, 
  for 
  his 
  valuable 
  and 
  original 
  

   investigations 
  in 
  Scotland, 
  the 
  South 
  of 
  France, 
  the 
  mountain 
  

   regions 
  of 
  Bavaria, 
  Wiirttemberg, 
  Switzerland, 
  Austria, 
  Hungary, 
  

   and 
  Transylvania, 
  and 
  for 
  his 
  scientific 
  researches 
  in 
  European 
  

   Turkey. 
  

  

  Soon 
  after 
  Boue 
  left 
  Edinburgh 
  he 
  published 
  his 
  ; 
  Essai 
  Geolo- 
  

   gique 
  sur 
  l'Ecosse.' 
  He 
  had 
  the 
  merit 
  of 
  being 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  to 
  

   point 
  out 
  to 
  continental 
  geologists 
  the 
  unsoundness 
  of 
  the 
  Wernerian 
  

   hypothesis 
  ; 
  he 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  to 
  maintain 
  that 
  the 
  Muschelkalk 
  and 
  

   Quadersandstein 
  of 
  Germany 
  were 
  not 
  identical 
  with 
  any 
  English 
  

   formations. 
  Boue 
  became 
  a 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  Imperial 
  Academy 
  of 
  

   Sciences 
  in 
  Vienna 
  in 
  1849, 
  and 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  founders 
  of 
  the 
  

   Geological 
  Society 
  of 
  France 
  in 
  1830 
  ; 
  he 
  was 
  Vice-President 
  in 
  

   1834, 
  and 
  in 
  1835 
  he 
  was 
  elected 
  President. 
  

  

  Boue 
  has 
  written 
  over 
  200 
  papers 
  and 
  works 
  in 
  his 
  own 
  and 
  

   other 
  Journals 
  and 
  Transactions 
  ; 
  five 
  of 
  his 
  papers 
  were 
  published 
  

   in 
  the 
  Quarterly 
  Journal 
  of 
  our 
  Society. 
  In 
  1856 
  a 
  short 
  abstract 
  

   appeared 
  in 
  our 
  Journal 
  (p. 
  325) 
  from 
  a 
  paper 
  by 
  him, 
  " 
  On 
  the 
  

   probable 
  Origin 
  of 
  the 
  English 
  Channel 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  a 
  Fissure," 
  

   in 
  which 
  he 
  pointed 
  out 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  highly 
  probable 
  that 
  the 
  English 
  

   Channel 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  excavated 
  solely 
  by 
  water-action, 
  but 
  owed 
  

   its 
  origin 
  to 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  lines 
  of 
  disturbance 
  which 
  has 
  fissured 
  this 
  

   portion 
  of 
  the 
  earth's 
  crust 
  ; 
  and, 
  taking 
  this 
  view 
  of 
  the 
  case, 
  the 
  

   fissure 
  probably 
  still 
  exists, 
  being 
  merely 
  filled 
  with 
  comparatively 
  

   loose 
  material, 
  and 
  would 
  prove 
  a 
  serious 
  obstacle 
  to 
  any 
  attempt 
  

  

  