liv - PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [March I913, 



THE ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 

 Aubrey Strahan, Sc.D., F.R.S. 



Since our last Annual Meeting we have lost by death no fewer 

 than six distinguished foreign geologists, Prof. Brush and Prof. 

 Zirkel from our list of Foreign Members, and Prof. Forel, Prof, von 

 Koken, Prof. K. de Khrushchov, and Prof. Tarr from among our 

 Foreign Correspondents. We have to mourn also the decease of 

 twenty-eight Fellows of the Society, and among them many who 

 had done much to advance geological science. 



Though they were not Fellows of the Geological Society, I may 

 be permitted to allude also to the deaths of five members of the 

 British Antarctic Expedition — Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates, and 

 Evans — on their return journey after attaining the South Pole. 

 The details of the tragedy and the indomitable fortitude displayed 

 by these men are known to you, but I will remind you of one 

 incident. We learn that they had collected geological specimens, 

 and that they carried them, after food and fuel had gone, until life 

 gave out. Surely never before have inanimate objects been invested 

 with so pathetic an interest. 



In preparing the following obituary notices I am indebted for 

 assistance to Dr. J. J. H. Teall, Mr. L. J. Spencer, Prof. E. J. 

 Garwood, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, Dr. J. 

 Home, Mr. H. W. Monckton, Mr. R. D. Oldham, and Mr. John 

 Gerrard. 



[For the data on which the following notice is founded I am indebted to an 

 obituary published in the ' American Journal of Science ' ser. 4, vol. xxxiii, 

 p. 389.] 



George Jarvis Brush was born on December 15th, 1831. While 

 yet at school he developed, under the guidance of an enlightened 

 master, a taste for mineralogy which he maintained for the rest of 

 his life. After a brief period spent in business, he was compelled 

 by an illness to seek a more open-air life. Having acquired an 

 interest in farming, he studied agriculture and applied chemistry 

 at Tale, and in 1850 became assistant-instructor in chemistry and 

 toxicology at Louisville (Kentucky). In 1852-53, while assis- 

 tant in chemistry at the University of Virginia, he published, in 

 collaboration with Mr. J. Lawrence Smith, three papers on the 

 * Re-examination of American Minerals.' Feeling the necessity of 



