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THE ANNIVERSAEY ADDRESS OF THE PllESIDENT, 

 Professor J. W. Judd, F.E.S. 



Gentlemen, 



During the past j-ear the hand of death has fallen very heavily 

 upon that important class of geologists who, by their labours in 

 connexion with local societies and field-clubs, do so much in pro- 

 moting the study of our science in the provinces. 



First among those whose loss we have to deplore, I must mention 

 Aethfr Champernoavne, who at the last Anniversary was elected 

 a Member of our Council. He was the eldest son of Henry 

 Champernowne, Esq., of Dartington Hall, near Totnes, and was 

 the representative of a very old Devonshire family. Born March 

 19th, 1839, he had the misfortune to lose his father when only 

 12 years of age ; he was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, 

 Oxford. 



Soon after his settlement in the home of his family, we find 

 Mr. Champernowne in active co-operation with the geologists, 

 naturalists, and antiquaries of Devonshire, such as Pengelly, John 

 Edward Lee, and H. J. Carter, who, by promoting the Devonshire 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, and 

 in other ways, have done so much towards making known the 

 past history of their county and of its inhabitants from the 

 earliest times. 



Alone, or in company with some of his fellow geologists of Devon- 

 shire, Mr. Champernowne visited Italy, Spain, Germany, and Belgium, 

 for the purpose of studying the equivalents of the Devonshire rocks, 

 upon which he had begun to concentrate his studies. He was 

 elected a Fellow of this Society in 1868. Mr. Champernowne was 

 a man possessing the widest sympathy with all branches of science, 

 and he laboured assiduously in every department of geology. He 

 studied the relations of the Devonshire rocks with such care, and 

 laid down his observations upon the Ordnance Survey maps with 

 so much skill and accuracy, that the Director-General of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey ofi'ered to use his results as a basis for the revision of 

 the mapping of the area. 



As a palgeontologist, he was well known by his studies of the 

 Corals and Strom atoporidae of the Devonshire rocks. His splendid 



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