94 Anniversary Meeting. [Nov. 30, 



ciety of Bengal, the Government Eecords of the Geological Society of 

 India, and other serial publications. 



Among other work, many years ago (in 1843) he discovered the first 

 known fossils in the Cambrian rocks of Bray head, to which, by the late 

 Professor Edward Forbes, the generic name of Oldhamia was given, — a 

 discovery which in its day created the same kind of impression among 

 geologists that the discovery of Eozoon produced when found by the late 

 Sir William Logan in the Laurentian rocks of Canada. He was also among 

 the earliest of the workers on the Geology of Ireland to show that above 

 the ice-scratched rocks of the island marine shells were found in clays and 

 gravels up to 600 feet above the level of the sea ; and arguing on this 

 discovery, he produced two maps showing the state of Ireland as a group 

 of islands when submerged to that depth, and also when submerged to a 

 depth of 1000 feet, which he considered himself justified in believing to 

 have been the case. 



Some of his other memoirs give excellent accounts of the geology of 

 large tracts of India, in one of which he showed that theEajmahal Hills 

 consist of great lava-flows of trappean rocks, proved to have been ejected 

 as lavas by the fact that the sandstones with which they are interbedded 

 are always much altered by the trap that rests upon them, and unaltered 

 when they lie upon the traps. His memoirs on the Cretaceous rocks of 

 parts of India also conveyed a great deal of new knowledge to European 

 geologists ; and the manner in which he has directed the Geological Sur- 

 vey of that great country, from the Himalaya to Cape Comorin (still 

 going on), deserves the gratitude of geologists in particular and of men of 

 science in general. 



The Medal was received by Professor Eamsay for Dr. Oldham. 



The Statutes relating to the election of Council and Officers were 

 then read, and Colonel Tounghusband and Dr. Hector having been, with 

 the consent of the Society, nominated Scrutators, the votes of the Fellows 

 present were collected, and the following were declared duly elected as 

 Council and Officers for the ensuing year : — 



President.— Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D. 



Treasurer. — "William Spottiswoode, M.A., LL.D. 



« f Prof. George Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 



secretaries. j ^^ ThomaA ^^ Huxlejj LL j^ ph D 



Foreign Secretary. — Prof. Alexander William Williamson, Ph.D. 



Other Members of the Council. — Professor J. Couch Adams, LL.D. 

 Major-General John T. Boileau ; Edward Viscount Cardwell, F.G.S. 

 Warren DeLaEue, D.C.L. ; Captain Frederick J. O. Evans, E.N., C.B. 

 Edward Frankland, D.C.L. ; Albert C. L. G. Giinther, M.A., M.D. 

 Professor T. Wharton Jones, F.E.C.S. ; Joseph Norman Lockyer 



