yd. 52.] ANNIVEKSAKY ADDKE8S OF THE PKESIDENT. lxxxix 



F.B.S., from the post of Director of the Geological Survey of Canada; 

 he had succeeded Sir W. Logan in 1869. He joined the English 

 Survey in 1845, went out as Director of the Geological Survey 

 of Victoria, Australia, in 1853, and was there through all the ex- 

 citement of the opening up of the gold-fields of that colony. In 

 1869, he transferred his services to Canada, where he held office 

 until 1894. Counting home and colonial service, Dr. Selwyn has 

 been 49 years on active duty, and has served as Commissioner to 

 three International Exhibitions. He received the Murchison 

 Medal in 1876. 



Dr. Selwyn has been succeeded as Director by Dr. George M. 

 Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S., E.G.S., eldest son of Sir "William Dawson, 

 who was on the North American Boundary Commission in 1873, 

 :and joined the Geological Survey in 1875. He has already 

 served on several Royal Commissions, the last being that on the 

 Behring Sea Fisheries ; has made numerous communications to this 

 Society, and was the recipient of the Bigsby Medal in 1891. 



Dr. G. M. Dawson is one of the few individuals (of whom Sir 

 Charles Lyell in 1864 was another instance) who may have read his 

 own obituary, for his death was announced on November 12th, 

 1895, but was speedily contradicted by Sir Charles Tupper, High 

 Commissioner for Canada, who cabled out at once and found 

 that an error in the spelling of the name had changed Zawson into 

 Dawson. 



In our Indian Empire Dr. William King, B.A., who joined 

 the Geological Survey in March 1857, and succeeded Mr. Med- 

 licott as Director in 1887, retired from office on July 16th, 

 1894. During the 37 years of Dr. King's connexion with the 

 Survey he published thirty-five papers, dealing mostly with the 

 geology of the southern and central parts of India. He was suc- 

 ceeded on July 17th, 1894, by Mr. CarlL. Griesbach, C.I.E., F.G.S., 

 who joined the Survey in Sept. 1878. Mr. Griesbach is the author 

 of 26 papers on geology, from 1868 to 1893. He was employed 

 on the Afghan Boundary Commission, from November 1884 to 

 October 1886, and as Geologist to His Highness the Amir of 

 Kabul, from January 1888 till July 1889. He has contributed 

 some important work on the geology of the Himalayas, and received 

 the gold medal from the Emperor of Austria in recognition of 

 his services rendered in connexion with the scientific expedition 

 in 1892 to the central regions of the Himalayas. 



Another of our Fellows, Prof. John Milne, F.E.S., after spending 



