﻿ANNIVERSARY 
  ADDRESS 
  OF 
  THE 
  PRESIDENT. 
  39 
  

  

  1879, 
  contains 
  the 
  principal 
  results 
  of 
  20 
  years' 
  observations 
  in 
  

   Southern 
  Norway. 
  Amongst 
  the 
  subjects 
  to 
  which, 
  in 
  this 
  and 
  

   other 
  works, 
  his 
  attention 
  was 
  especially 
  devoted, 
  were 
  the 
  Archaean 
  

   and 
  Palaeozoic 
  rocks 
  of 
  Norway, 
  and 
  the 
  traces 
  of 
  glacial 
  action 
  so 
  

   conspicuous 
  in 
  parts 
  of 
  that 
  country. 
  

  

  Sir 
  Charles 
  Tilston 
  Bright, 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  his 
  death 
  in 
  May 
  last, 
  

   at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  56, 
  had 
  been 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  this 
  Society 
  for 
  a 
  quarter 
  of 
  

   a 
  century. 
  He 
  was 
  born 
  at 
  "Wanstead 
  in 
  1832, 
  educated 
  at 
  Mer- 
  

   chant 
  Taylors' 
  School, 
  and, 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  15, 
  entered 
  the 
  service 
  of 
  

   the 
  Electric 
  Telegraph 
  Company, 
  established 
  to 
  work 
  the 
  patents 
  of 
  

   Cooke 
  and 
  "Wheats 
  tone. 
  Prom 
  this 
  time 
  his 
  life 
  was 
  devoted 
  to 
  

   electric 
  telegraphy, 
  and 
  both 
  as 
  inventor 
  and 
  as 
  engineer 
  his 
  

   name 
  became 
  a 
  " 
  household 
  word 
  " 
  in 
  connexion 
  with 
  the 
  series 
  of 
  

   enterprises 
  that 
  have 
  so 
  marvellously 
  accelerated 
  the 
  means 
  of 
  com- 
  

   munication 
  between 
  all 
  civilized 
  nations 
  in 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  

   40 
  years. 
  He 
  took 
  a 
  leading 
  part 
  in 
  1853 
  in 
  laying 
  a 
  submarine 
  

   cable 
  between 
  Portpatrick 
  in 
  Scotland 
  and 
  Donaghadee 
  in 
  Ireland 
  ; 
  

   and 
  in 
  1858, 
  after 
  an 
  unsuccessful 
  attempt 
  in 
  the 
  previous 
  year, 
  he 
  

   achieved 
  the 
  historical 
  feat, 
  as 
  engineer, 
  of 
  laying 
  the 
  first 
  Atlantic 
  

   Cable. 
  It 
  is 
  true 
  that 
  this 
  cable, 
  although 
  successfully 
  laid, 
  failed 
  

   shortly 
  afterwards, 
  but 
  the 
  great 
  first 
  step 
  had 
  been 
  taken, 
  and 
  the 
  

   task, 
  once 
  achieved, 
  was 
  soon 
  repeated. 
  This 
  signal 
  scientific 
  victory 
  

   was 
  largely 
  due 
  to 
  the 
  previous 
  experiments 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Bright, 
  and 
  

   there 
  has 
  probably 
  seldom, 
  in 
  modern 
  times, 
  been 
  an 
  instance 
  in 
  

   which 
  knighthood 
  has 
  been 
  more 
  worthily 
  bestowed 
  than 
  it 
  was 
  in 
  

   this 
  case 
  on 
  a 
  young 
  man 
  of 
  only 
  26. 
  

  

  For 
  the 
  ten 
  or 
  twelve 
  years 
  following 
  the 
  laying 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  

   Atlantic 
  Cable, 
  Sir 
  C. 
  Bright 
  was 
  engaged 
  in 
  establishing 
  submarine 
  

   communication 
  in 
  various 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  world. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  

   important 
  expeditions 
  to 
  which 
  he 
  was 
  attached 
  was 
  that 
  in 
  1860, 
  

   of 
  H.M.S. 
  ' 
  Bulldog,' 
  and 
  the 
  private 
  steam-yacht 
  i 
  Fox 
  ' 
  sent 
  to 
  

   survey 
  a 
  proposed 
  route 
  for 
  a 
  Transatlantic 
  cable, 
  via 
  Iceland, 
  

   Greenland, 
  and 
  Newfoundland. 
  Later 
  he 
  was 
  chiefly 
  engaged 
  in 
  

   various 
  commercial 
  undertakings, 
  most 
  of 
  them 
  connected 
  with 
  

   telegraphy. 
  He 
  was 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  of 
  Telegraph 
  Engineers 
  

   and 
  Electricians 
  in 
  the 
  Jubilee 
  year 
  of 
  the 
  Telegraph 
  (1887), 
  which 
  

   coincided 
  with 
  the 
  Jubilee 
  year 
  of 
  Her 
  Majesty's 
  reign. 
  So 
  far 
  as 
  

   I 
  can 
  ascertain, 
  he 
  never 
  wrote 
  on 
  any 
  geological 
  subject. 
  

  

  William 
  Hellier 
  Bailt, 
  who 
  died 
  at 
  Rathmines, 
  near 
  Dublin, 
  

   on 
  August 
  6th, 
  had 
  ceased 
  for 
  upwards 
  of 
  30 
  years 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  resident 
  

  

  YOL. 
  XLV. 
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