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EOSSILIEEKOUS DEPOSITSOE SCOTLAND.

The following address was read by Mr Miller, on Ms re-signing the President’s Chair of the Society :—.

Gentlemen, — It is customary for the retiring President, intaking leave of the chair, to address the members on somegeneral subject connected with the objects which our Societyhas been instituted to carry out; and in conforming to thepractice, I shall take the liberty of stating, as briefly as pos-sible, the results at wMch I have arrived, in recently arrang-ing the specimens of a collection perhaps more adequatelyrepresentative of the Geology of Scotland than any other thathas yet been made. There are other collections which, thoughmore partial in their character, excel it in particular depart-ments ; but none which I have yet seen sweep so completelyacross the entire scale of our Scottish formations; and assuch of its divisions as are most defective indicate, negativelyat least, by the blanks on their partially filled shelves, thedeposits on which we have still to direct our energies, it maybe well that your attention should be specially called to these,as fields in which work has still to be done, and in which thereward of fresh and interesting discoveiy awaits the patient

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