260 Anniversary Address by Sir A. Geikie. —[Nov. 30, 
more deeply regret than that of ALEXANDER AGAssiIz. His frequent visits to 
Europe brought him into closer personal contact with the Fellows of the 
Royal Society than is usually possible for our Foreign Members. Only last 
summer he came once more among us with apparently little diminution of 
his characteristic capacity for work. But it was his last public appearance, 
for he died a week or two afterwards on his homeward passage across the 
Atlantic. 
His genius for original research, the unwearied activity with which he 
pursued those lines of enquiry to which he specially devoted himself, and the 
generous prodigality with which he placed his ample fortune at the service of 
science in the investigations which he led and inspired, placed him at the 
head of the oceanographers of his day. Year after year he traversed, 
dredged, and sounded the ocean through many different latitudes, bringing back 
from each cruise enormous collections of material, which went to increase 
the treasures of that Museum of Comparative Zoology which his father 
had planned at Harvard, and to which he himself had devoted the strenuous 
energies of his life. Besides adding much to our knowledge of the fauna 
of the deep, he ever had an eye for the great physiographic problems which 
the oceans, their coasts, and their islands present. The pile of goodly 
volumes in which his incessant labours are chronicled form one of the 
most remarkable monuments which have been reared in our day by the 
genius, enterprise, and enthusiasm of a single man. 
By the death of STANISLAO CANNIZZARO, at the ripe age of 84, Italy has 
been deprived of her foremost chemist, and science has to regret the loss of ° 
one of her illustrious students, who by his generalisations on chemical 
combination did so much to place modern chemistry on a sound basis. It 
happened that at the time of his death the senior Secretary of the Royal 
Society and myself were in Rome as delegates of the Society to the meeting 
of the International Association of Academies. We were glad to avail 
ourselves of the opportunity of attending the funeral of our deceased Foreign 
Member. It was a touching sight to find that in the class-room where he 
had so long taught and where his diagrams were still hanging on the walls, 
the coffin had been placed on his lecture-table and was guarded by a body of 
his students, who bore it thence on their shoulders, through a dense crowd of 
mourners to the hearse. Representatives of science from far and near 
followed the body to the grave. 7 
A veteran astronomer has passed away in GIOVANNI SCHIAPARELLI. From 
the time of his discovery of the planet Hesperia, made when he was only 
six and twenty years of age, he prosecuted an active and successful study of 
the heavens, extending over some forty years at the observatory of Milan. 
