THE WORK OF ORGANISMS IN THE MAKING 

 AND UNMAKING OF ROCKS. 



By JOSEPH LOMAS, F.G.S., President. 



I must first congratulate the Society and Professor 

 Herdman on the completion of the New Zoology 

 Buildings. 



We are now adequately, nay, sumptuously housed, 

 increased facilities are within reach of our members, and 

 I venture to express a hope that full advantage will be 

 taken of the library and collections, so conveniently 

 placed at our disposal. 



With these privileges I look with confidence to an 

 expansion of our Society both in numbers and in 

 usefulness. 



The Science we are banded together to promote has 

 points of contact with many other branches of study, and 

 perhaps with Geology the association is closest of all. 



In Palaeontology we obviously have a connecting 

 link, or rather, I ought to say, a territory common to 

 both. 



But it is not only in the study of ancient forms of life 

 that they come together, for the Geologist has constantly 

 to face problems which can only be solved by a knowledge 

 of the activities of existing forms. 



As Biologists our theme is the organism complete 

 with all the functions of life. This embraces not only 



