438 Anniversary Address by Sir A. Geikie. [Nov. 30, 



To our late associate, Dr. John Beddoe, the science of anthropology stands 

 greatly indebted. Born in 1826, and educated for the medical profession, he 

 began, when only 20 years of age, to make those observations on the facial 

 and other features of living races which, throughout his busy professional 

 life, he continued to prosecute till he became the most learned and accom- 

 plished authority on the anthropological history of the human races of 

 Britain and of the European Continent. 



The name of Thomas Eupert Jones has been for nearly two generations 

 a household word among the palaeontologists and geologists of this country. 

 Although his own more particular branch of enquiry lay among the 

 Entomostraca and Foraminifera of past ages, on which he was the highest 

 authority, he possessed a wide range of acquirement in all departments of 

 geology. His ample stores of knowledge were always freely placed at the 

 service of other workers in science. Born in 1819, he passed away last 

 spring at the advanced age of 92. 



The Eeport of the Council for the past year, now in the hands of the 

 Fellows, gives a summary of the work on which the Society has been 

 engaged since the last Anniversary. There are one or two features in this 

 Eeport to which I should like to call attention. In my Address last year 

 I adverted to the history of seismological observation in this country and 

 to the part taken in the development of this branch of observational science 

 by our associate Dr. Milne. I expressed the hope that means might be 

 found to place his important service on a more permanent footing, with an 

 enlarged staff and more generous financial aid. Though no important 

 advance has yet been made towards the realisation of this hope, the subject 

 has not been lost sight of, and at least one. useful step has been taken in 

 the more complete equipment of Eskdalemuir Observatory as a seismological 

 station. There are now installed there the complete Galitzin apparatus 

 and the twin Milne apparatus, which record photographically, and also the 

 Wiechert and the Omori instruments, the observations of which are recorded 

 on smoked paper. To Prof. Schuster we are indebted for his generosity 

 in presenting the Galitzin apparatus. The various instruments, when 

 completely put into working order, will supply valuable material for a. 

 comparison of results and will provide an important addition to the network 

 of seismological stations in this country. The addition of this seismological 

 work to the other duties of the Superintendent of the Eskdalemuir 

 Observatory has shown that an increase of the staff under his supervision is 

 imperatively required. The Gassiot Committee, after a full consideration of 

 the subject, has recommended that a grant in aid for a limited period should 



