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KENDALL : PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 
We have lost several members by death, among whom three 
stand pre-eminent by their services to Yorkshire Geolog3^ 
The Marquis of Ripon, K.G., for 52 years President of the 
Society, was a real lover of our science and not only manifested 
a keen interest in our w ork down to the end of his life, but attended 
our meetings whenever the onerous responsibilities of his busy 
life permitted it ; he presided at the first meeting of the Society 
that it ^^as my good fortune to attend. A memoir from the 
pen of Mr. Lo^^•er Carter has already appeared in our Transactions, 
and I may be allowed to say that to those who were privileged to 
meet Lord Ripon it is not difficult to understand that his 
sympathetic administration of the great dependency of India will 
live long in the grateful recollection of our distant fellow-subjects. 
Charles Fox-Strangways rendered services to Yorkshire 
Geology that it would be hard to over-estimate. His labours on 
the Geological Survey, from which he retired but a short time 
before his death, were, in great part, in this count}^. partly in the 
countr}^ about Harrogate, and, more particularly, in the Jurassic 
regions of the Xorth and East Ridings. Besides most notable 
revisions of the Jurassic series, he gave us a complete conspectus 
and codification of the entire sequence of Liassic and Oolitic 
rocks. His contributions to the study of the Physical Geography 
of the regions mapped bv him furnish an admirable basis for 
future work, and, of the beaut}" and accuracy of the maps prepared 
by him, it would be hard to speak in terms of overpraise. I feel 
a strong sense of personal indebtedness to Strangways for maps 
that have formed the starting point of much of my own work, and 
that have never, in a single instance needed rectification, even 
though my surveys have been assisted by records of borings and 
cuttings not available at the time of the original surve}^ 
John Roche Daykns, whose death at the age of 74 was 
reported a few weeks ago, laboured long upon the official Geological 
Survey of Yorkshire, especially in the West and North Ridings, 
and though, upon his retirement from the service, he withdrew 
to the solitudes of Snowdonia, his interest in Yorkshire and this 
Society never relaxed. He contributed several valuable papers 
to our Proceedings, distinguished by the characteristics of all his 
Avork, careful and exact observations and sagacious reasoning. 
His papers on the Glacial Phenomena of Wharfedale may well be 
