Presidential Address By Charles Doolittle Walcott: The Geological Society Of Washington (1895) is a book written by Charles Doolittle Walcott, an American paleontologist, and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The book is a transcript of Walcott's presidential address to the Geological Society of Washington in 1895, where he discusses the importance of geology in understanding the earth's history and the evolution of life on the planet. Walcott's...