PEESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



By P. G. H. Boswell, A.R.C.Sc., D.Sc. 



George Herdman Professor of Geology in the University of 

 Liverpool. 



(Read October 15th, 1920.) 



During the past session the Society has sustained the loss of 

 two of its most distinguished members. Henry Charles 

 Beasley died on December 14th, 1919, at the age of 83. 

 He occupied the Presidential Chair of this Society during the 

 session 1901-2, and was Secretary of the Liverpool Geological 

 Society from 1890 to 1900, and its President for the sessions 

 1887-9, 1904-6, and 1908-9. 



His work on fossil footprints gave him a wide reputation, 

 and he accumulated an excellent collection of Triassic footprints 

 largely from Storeton and other quarries in this district. In 

 addition he obtained a fine series of photographs of various 

 footprints scattered throughout the museums of the country. 

 He published many papers on the subject in the " Proceedings 

 of the Liverpool Geological Society," and wrote reports for the 

 British Association Committee which dealt with the Investiga- 

 tion of the Fauna and Flora of the Trias of the British Isles, 

 of which Committee he was for a time Secretary. This work 

 was recognised by the award to him in 1906 of the proceeds of 

 the Barlow- Jameson Fund of the Geological Society of London, 

 and by the posthumous award of the recently-instituted medal 

 of the Liverpool Geological Society. 



