﻿ANNIVERSARY 
  ADDRESS 
  OF 
  THE 
  PRESIDENT. 
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  Giuseppe 
  Meneghini, 
  Senator 
  of 
  the 
  Kingdom 
  of 
  Italy, 
  Professor 
  

   of 
  Geology 
  and 
  Mineralogy 
  at 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Pisa, 
  the 
  oldest 
  and 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  widely 
  known 
  of 
  Italian 
  Geologists, 
  died 
  on 
  the 
  29th 
  

   January, 
  1889. 
  He 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  Padua 
  on 
  the 
  30th 
  July, 
  1811, 
  

   studied 
  at 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  city, 
  and 
  took 
  the 
  degree 
  of 
  

   doctor 
  of 
  medicine 
  there 
  in 
  1834. 
  Towards 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  

   he 
  became 
  assistant 
  to 
  the 
  Professor 
  of 
  Botany 
  at 
  Padua. 
  In 
  

   1839 
  he 
  received 
  the 
  Professorship 
  of 
  Physics, 
  Chemistry, 
  and 
  

   Botany 
  in 
  the 
  Medical 
  School 
  of 
  the 
  Padua 
  University. 
  In 
  1848, 
  

   in 
  consequence 
  of 
  political 
  complications, 
  he 
  was 
  driven 
  from 
  

   Padua 
  ; 
  but 
  in 
  1849 
  he 
  was 
  installed 
  in 
  Pisa 
  as 
  Professor 
  of 
  Geology 
  

   and 
  Mineralogy, 
  and 
  remained 
  there 
  till^his 
  death. 
  The 
  Jubilee 
  of 
  

   his 
  professional 
  career 
  was 
  celebrated 
  in 
  1884. 
  

  

  The 
  news 
  of 
  Professor 
  Meneghini's 
  death 
  was 
  telegraphed 
  to 
  me 
  

   by 
  his 
  colleague, 
  Prof. 
  d'Achiardi, 
  in 
  time 
  for 
  me 
  to 
  request 
  our 
  

   Foreign 
  Member, 
  Prof. 
  Capellini, 
  who 
  was 
  at 
  Pisa, 
  to 
  represent 
  the 
  

   Society 
  at 
  the 
  funeral. 
  This 
  he 
  was 
  so 
  good 
  as 
  to 
  do. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Meneghini's 
  earlier 
  scientific 
  publications 
  were 
  chiefly 
  

   botanical. 
  Up 
  to 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  his 
  leaving 
  Padua 
  he 
  had 
  only 
  

   written 
  a 
  few 
  unimportant 
  papers 
  on 
  geological 
  subjects. 
  Amongst 
  

   his 
  numerous 
  subsequent 
  contributions 
  to 
  various 
  branches 
  of 
  

   science 
  the 
  most 
  valuable 
  were 
  paheontological, 
  especially 
  his 
  

   'Palaeontology 
  of 
  Sardinia,' 
  published 
  in 
  1857. 
  To 
  this 
  work 
  

   additions 
  were 
  subsequently 
  made 
  as 
  new 
  materials 
  were 
  obtained, 
  

   and 
  one 
  of 
  these, 
  which 
  appeared 
  in 
  1881, 
  contained 
  descriptions 
  

   of 
  Cambrian 
  Trilobites 
  from 
  the 
  island. 
  Another 
  important 
  work 
  

   of 
  Meneghini's 
  was 
  his 
  ' 
  Monograph 
  of 
  the 
  Fossils 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  

   Bed 
  Limestone 
  with 
  Ammonites 
  of 
  Lombardy, 
  the 
  Apennines, 
  and 
  

   Central 
  Italy.' 
  Besides 
  his 
  palseontological 
  work, 
  he 
  wrote 
  a 
  few 
  

   mineralogical 
  papers, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  best 
  known 
  being 
  that 
  in 
  which, 
  

   in 
  association 
  with 
  E. 
  Bechi, 
  he 
  described 
  some 
  curious 
  zeolites 
  

   containing 
  magnesia 
  in 
  considerable 
  quantities. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Meneghini 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Foreign 
  Correspondent 
  of 
  this 
  

   Society 
  in 
  1863, 
  and 
  a 
  Foreign 
  Member 
  in 
  1884. 
  

  

  "Within 
  the 
  last 
  week 
  I 
  have 
  received 
  information 
  of 
  the 
  death, 
  

   on 
  the 
  3rd 
  of 
  February 
  1889, 
  of 
  another 
  Italian 
  Geologist, 
  a 
  Foreign 
  

   Correspondent 
  of 
  this 
  Society, 
  Giuseppe 
  Segtjenza, 
  Professor 
  of 
  

   Geology 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Messina. 
  Owing 
  to 
  the 
  death 
  having 
  

   occurred 
  so 
  recently, 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  unable 
  to 
  learn 
  full 
  details 
  of 
  

   his 
  life. 
  He 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  1833. 
  His 
  writings, 
  which 
  were 
  very 
  

  

  