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REPORT OF THE 
23 New Members, 2 Lady Subscribers, 4 Associates and 
2 Temporary have been added to the Society during the past 
year, whilst the Society has lost by death 10 members, and by 
resignation 38 Members, 5 Lady Subscribers and 6 Associates. 
The Council propose for election as Vice-Presidents, Major 
J. A. Barstow and G. S. Gibb, Esq. 
The Council propose for election as New Members of the 
Council:—Mr. C. E. Elmhirst, Bev. E. S. Carter, Dr. Collins, 
and Mr. Alderman Mil ward, in the room of Mr. F. L. 
Mawdesley, deceased, and Major Barstow, Mr. J E. Clark 
and Mr. G. S. Gibb, who retire by rotation ; and Mr. H. 
Copperthwaite in the room of Mr. A. Worsley, who has 
resigned his membership of the Society. 
Within little over a year the Society has lost three honorary 
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members, a brief reference to whom will not be out of place 
here. 
Foremost among these is Sir Bichard Owen. To attempt a 
description of this famous anatomist’s work, which for amount 
and wideness of range is almost unequalled, would be 
impossible in this Beport. It is sufficient here to say that he 
was for many years an honorary member of this Society, and 
that our three great Saurian skeletons and Jurassic mammalian 
jaw were originally described by him. 
The death of Sir Andrew Crombie Barnsay makes a gap in 
the roll of eminent men of science. His work on the 
Geological Survey of Great Britain extended over forty years, 
during the last ten years of which period he held the post of 
Director-General. The value of this work, both to the Survey 
and to Science in general, can scarcely be over-rated. 
Dr. Ferdinand Boemer had the advantage of working over a 
much wider field than his British fellow-geologist. He wrote 
exhaustive works on the Geology of Texas and of Silesia, and 
conceived the bold idea of exploring all the Devonian rocks of 
Europe. This scheme he actually carried out; beginning with 
the classic red sandstones of Devonshire, he followed the 
Devonian formation right across the Continent to the shores of 
the Bosphorus. 
By the death of Mr. William Beed, Honorary Curator of 
Geology, and Vice-President, the Society has suffered a severe 
