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Anniversary Meeting. 



Nov. 30, 



been previously only called granite and gneiss, and vaguely confounded with 

 granitic and gneissic rocks of Silurian age. Sir William first proved their 

 great antiquity by showing that they consist of strata which had been in- 

 tensely disturbed and metamorphosed before the deposit'on of the oldest 

 Silurian beds. Next, he showed that the Laurentian rocks consist of two 

 series of metamorphic strata, and that the Upper Laurentian strata or gneiss 

 lies quite unconformably on the Lower Laurentian masses. Thirdly, he 

 made the important discovery of the Eozoon Canadense in the Limestone 

 beds of the Lower Laurentian series. 



The great importance of this discovery becomes manifest when we con- 

 sider the evidence of the enormous antiquity of the strata thus proved to be 

 fossiliferous, compared with the Lingula- flags and Cambrian sarata, in 

 which the oldest previously known fossils had been found. It has seriously 

 modified the speculative opinions of many geologists and zoologists. 



Professor Ramsay, 

 I will beg you to transmit this Medal to S r W^illiam Logan, in testimony 

 of the appreciation by the Royal Society of his arduous labours in the 

 accomplishment of the great work of the Geological Survey of Canada, 

 of the critical skill and acumen which he has manifested in its course, and 

 of the high scientific importance of the discoveries which have been esta- 

 blished b}' his investigations. 



On the motion of Dr. Alderson, Coll. Reg. Med. Prseses, seconded by 

 by Mr. Ceesar Hawkins, it was resolved, — " That the thanks of the Society 

 be returned to the President for his Address, and that he be requested to 

 allow it to be printed." 



The Statutes relating to the election of Council and Officers having 

 been read, and Mr. Curling and Mr. Hogg having been, with the con- 

 sent 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. — Lieut. -General Edward Sabine, R.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Treasurer.— V^\[\mm Allen Miller, M.D., LL.D. 

 , . J William Sharpey, M.D., LL.D. 



I George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Foreign Secretary. — Professor William Hallows Miller, M.A., LL.D. 

 Otlier Members of the Council. — Frederick Augustus Abel, Esq. ; Wil- 

 liam Benjamin Carpenter, M.D. ; Prof. A. Cajley, LL.D. ; J. Lockhart 

 Clarke, Esq. ; John Evans, Esq. ; Capt. Douglas GrJton, C.B. ; John 

 Peter Gassiot, Esq. ; John Hall Gladstone, Esq., Ph.D. ; Sir Rowland 

 Hill, K.C.B., D.C.L. ; William Huggins, Esq.; Prof. Thomas Henry 

 Huxley, Ph.D. ; Prof. John Philhps, M.A., LL.D ; Prof. Andrew 

 Crombie Ramsay, LL.D. ; Colonel William James Sm.ythe, R.xi. ; Lieut.- 

 CoL Alexander Strange ; Thomas Thomson, M.D. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to the Scrutators. 



