Yol. 52.] ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. lxXXVli 



reached its Jubilee, and, like all successful and united people, it 

 ought to celebrate the publication of its 50th volume in some suitable 

 manner. 



The 49 volumes already published are the joint labours of 46 

 authors, about 12 of whom have, however, achieved the greater 

 share of the work produced. Prominent among these stand such 

 names as Searles V. Wood, Richard Owen, Thomas Davidson, 

 Edwards and Haime, P. E. Edwards, T. Rupert Jones, T. Wright, 

 P. M. Duncan, H. A. Nicholson, G. J. Hinde, G. F. Whidborne, 

 Salter, and others. 



Very much of the success which has attended the Society must 

 be attributed to the constant care and untiring energy of its 

 Honorary Secretary, the Eev. Prof. T. Wiltshire, who has con- 

 tinually watched over the work and managed all the business 

 details of the Society since he took over the duties from the first 

 Secretary, Dr. Bowerbank, thirty years ago. 



I feel that I should be wanting in gratitude to my many geo- 

 logical friends and supporters, did I omit, on this occasion, to thank 

 them most heartily for the aid that they have always afforded me 

 in carrying on the Geological Magazine for the past 32 years. 



It is no easy task to arrange and get printed off 48 pages of 

 matter on one special branch of science, and issue it regularly, with 

 illustrations, for 380 consecutive months — but like other literary 

 enterprises and institutions, ' supported by voluntary contributions/ 

 we might well inscribe on the cover of the Magazine as our motto 

 Dominus providebit; for, certainly, we have been singularly for- 

 tunate in our friends and supporters, amongst whom, in the past, 

 as in this latter-day revival, we ought especially to remember 

 the names of Prof. T. G. Bonney, Mr. W. H. Hudleston, and 

 Dr. G. J. Hinde. 



Through the death of Prof. Huxley, the Royal College of Science 

 was deprived of its Dean and a Professor who had been connected 

 with its teaching body for 41 years. 



The office of Dean has since been conferred upon Prof. John W. 

 Judd, C.B., LL.D., E.R.S., who succeeded Prof. Sir A. 0. Ramsay 

 in the chair of Geology in the then 'Royal School of Mines' in 1877, 

 which was transfigured into the 'Royal College of Science' in 

 1881. Prof. Judd is a past President and Secretary of this Society, 

 and we trust that he may long retain his deanery, to the advance- 

 ment of the various sciences committed to his charge. 



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