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In looking at the labours of the Society during the past year, it is satisfactory to notice the same activity, the same wide range of subjects as ever, and the same independence of research for truth's sake which there ever should be. But, though good work has been done in special branches and the technical details of Geology, not so much progress has been made in its higher problems. I would, however, direct your attention to the steps made in grouping our volcanic rocks, and in the determination of the fauna of our Cambrian strata, which proves to be so much larger and richer than was anticipated a few years back. Both these subjects are in able hands, and cannot fail to yield important results, the latter especially in aiding to settle that interesting question—the true line of division between the Silurian and the Cambrian formations. On the subject of denudation and river-action, we have also had several excellent papers, and look forward with interest to the further development of the many original views which they have put before us.
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PRESTWICH,, J. Annual Address To the Geological Society of London, Feb. 16, 1872. Nature 5, 431–433 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005431a0
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