Hi PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGUCAL SOCIETY. [May 1896,. 



THE ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 

 Henry Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Gentlemen, — 



The past year has left behind it a long and mournful record in 

 our ' Street of Tombs,' and, as my own allotted time is so brief 

 to-day, I would suggest that we should each entwine a garland of 

 laurels and immortelles in memory of those whose names we 

 honour, and so, hammer in hand, go forward. 



Of aged Fellows, one, Robert Pitch, of Norwich, had reached 

 his 93rd year. He was a contemporary of my father, Samuel 

 Woodward, the Norfolk geologist, but twelve years his junior. Six 

 Eellows and two Eoreign Members — namely, Prof. C. C. Babington, 

 the Yen. Archdeacon Browne, Sir E. H. Bunbury, James Carter of 

 Cambridge, Mr. E. J. Chance, Gen. Copland-Crawford, Prof. J. D. 

 Dana, and Prof. Sven Loven — were between 80 and 90 years 

 of age. Six Eellows and two Eoreign Members — the Marquis de 

 Saporta, Rt. Hon. T. H. Huxley, Prof. L. Riitimeyer, the Hon. 

 Walter Mantell, Mr. P. H. Lawrence, Mr. E. A. Wiinsch, the 

 Rev. E. Duke, and Mr. Richard Carter — were between 70 and 80 

 years of age. Eight Eellows — namely, Mr. J. W. Hulke, For. Sec, 

 Mr. T. J". Slatter, Dr. J. E. Taylor, Mr. Charles Tyler, Rev. Lester 

 Lester, Mr. J. Walter Tayler, Mr. W. S. Milnes, and Dr. G. W. Cline 

 — were between 60 and 70. The remaining five were between 35 

 and 60 :— Prof. Yalentine BaU, C.B., Mr. J. Mitchell, Mr. G. F. 

 HoskiDg, Mr. Hugh Miller, and Mr. J. E. Williams. 



We have lost two Past Presidents : the Rt. Hon. T. H. Huxley, 

 P.C., and Mr. J. W. Hulke, For. Sec. ; four Foreign Members : 

 namely, the Marquis de Saporta (France), Prof. J. D. Dana (United 

 States of America), Prof. S. Loven (Sweden), Prof. L. Riitimeyer, 

 M.D. (Switzerland) ; and one Foreign Correspondent, Sr. Don 

 Antonio del Castillo (Mexico). 



Three of these were also Wollaston Medallists. Another Wol- 

 laston Medallist died last year who was not a Fellow of this 

 Society,— Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.R.S. (cet. 78). Williamson was 

 distinguished as a palseobotanist, and was for many years Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in Owens College, Manchester. His collection, 

 illustrative of the structure of Fossil Plants of the Coal-Measures r 

 has just been acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum. 



