ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. KOMIK 
beset the early life of our own Hugh Miller, has made most im- 
portant contributions to our knowledge of the fauna of the oldest 
palzeozoic rocks of France. 
Mr. Evans read the following acknowledgment on behalf of 
Prof. AnstEep :— 
In returning thanks on the part of Monsieur Rouault for the 
grant of the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston-fund, I will 
take the opportunity of saying a few words concerning the nature 
and extent of the scientific work executed by this hardy and per- 
severing geologist in his own most difficult country. 
Monsieur Rouault is one of those men who are independent of 
and rise above all distinctions of class. Self-educated in the strictest 
sense of the term, a collector of fossils because his nature would not 
allow him to be other, he resembles the lamented Hugh Miller and 
our still active and useful countryman Mr. Peach, the latter of whom 
attained a similar distinction under very similar difficulties. 
Nearly seventeen years ago the valuable collections already in the 
possession of Monsieur Rouault were presented to the municipality 
of Rennes, and formed the principal nucleus of a museum then first 
established. The previous owner then became Directewr-conservateur 
of the Geological and Paleontological Museum of the town of 
Rennes; and this museum has since its first establishment been 
greatly enriched by the same agency. It is exceedingly rich in 
local fossils, and contains many type, specimens, some of extreme 
interest. 
The money I receive on the part of M. Rouault will, I am sure, be 
employed by him in the best interests of science, and will be recog- 
nized as a fit acknowledgment of the services he has already ren- 
dered to palzozoic geology, and an earnest of work still in progress. 
THE ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 
Professor Huxtey, LL.D., F.R.S. 
Among the numerous Fellows and Foreign Members of the So- 
ciety whose loss during the past year we have to regret, I may 
refer particularly to the following :— 
Erreyne Jutes ApotpHe Dexmier DE Simon, Vicomte d’Archiac, 
was born at Reims on the 24th of September, 1802. On the com- 
pletion of his education, at the Military School of St. Cyr, he entered 
the army, and remained a cavalry officer until the revolution of 
July 1830, when he quitted the service. During M. d’Archiac’s 
nine years of military life, his great capacity for the successful cul- 
tivation of natural science appears to have lain dormant. At least, 
the only recorded products of his pen during that time are, a histo- 
rical novel in three volumes, and a political pamphlet. 
It is not until 1835 that the long series of writings which raised 
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