The following pages have as their text three Presidential Addresses by Professor H. H. Read. The first, entitled Metamorphism and Igneous Action, was composed for Section C of the British Association at Dundee. The other two entitled Meditations on Granite, Parts I and II, were read to the Geologists’ Association in 1943 and 1944. They will be referred to for brevity’s sake as Dundee and Granite I and II.