xlviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, [vol. lxxvi, 



THE ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 



G-eoege William Lampllgh, F.R.S. 



It becomes once more my regretful duty to review the roll of 

 Fellows lost to us by Death. With the passing of the War-cloud 

 the list is not so heavy as of late years, but it contains man} 7 

 names which you will desire me to commemorate. In attempting 

 to do so. I have received assistance from several friends, especially 

 from Dr. A. Smith Woodward, Mr. R, Bullen Newton, Dr. F. A. 

 Bather, and Prof. W. S. Boulton. 



First we have to deplore two talented Fellows lost in the after- 

 math of the War. 



Captain Tom Esmond Geoffrey Bailey was the member of a 

 patriotic family of six brothers, all of whom served abroad in the 

 Voluntary Army. Their record is heroic, and characteristic of their 

 time. Four of them gained the Military Cross ; two lost their 

 lives in action ; one died subsequently, while serving as Principal 

 Medical Officer in the former German territory of East Africa ; 

 and another, eminent in our science, was twice severely wounded. 



At the outbreak of hostilities the one of whom I have now to 

 speak came home from his geological work in Borneo, and entered 

 the Army. During hard and distinguished service as an officer in 

 France, from 1915 to 1918, he was promoted and recommended 

 for honours for his conduct at the battle of the Somme in 1916, 

 and was severely wounded in leading a forlorn hope at Arras in 

 1917. Towards the end of 1918 he went to North Russia, and 

 fell fighting there on April 2nd, 1919, while advancing unsupported 

 on machine-guns which had opened up unexpectedly on his path. 

 He had been awarded the Military Cross for his behaviour in 

 action not many clays before, but did not live to know of it. In 

 his life and death he was typical of Britain's best. 



Born on April loth, 1883, he was educated at Kendal and 

 Dulwich, and afterwards at Cambridge where he graduated 

 (1902-5). He was elected into our Societ}* in 1907. Between 

 1906 and 1908 he was occupied in a mineral survey of Nyasaland 

 under the auspices of the Imperial Institute, having for his 

 fellow-worker Dr. A. R. Andrew. As an outcome of this work 

 Andrew & Bailey submitted a paper to our Society on the Geology 

 of Nyasaland, which was published in the Quarterly Journal in 



