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by the same powerful people who possessed all the remainder 

 of the chain, particularly as the Severn forms a well-defined na- 

 tural boundary to the ridges in question. But after all, should 

 antiquaries prevail in abstracting this hilly tract of South 

 Salop in which the M Silurian system" of rocks is so well dis- 

 played, from the domains of old Caradoc, ample space is 

 still left in Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Brecknockshire, and 

 Monmouthshire, to sanction the use of the name proposed. In 

 allusion to this term I have only further to add, that it is to 

 be hoped that no naturalist will, from its sound, fall into the 

 mistake of an early English writer who is ridiculed by Camden 

 for having misapplied the line of Juvenal, 



" Magna qui voce solebat 

 Vendere municipes facta de merce Siluros," 



supposing that the British captives were exposed to sale at 

 Rome, when the poet spoke oi'Jis/ies, and not of men ! My 

 geological readers do not require to be told that there are 

 no fossilized remains of the " Silurus" or bony Pike, in these 

 deposits, since M. Agassiz will afford us very different names 

 for the ichthyolites of the Ludlow rocks. 



VIII. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



PROCEEDINGS at the Annual General Meeting, 20th Feb- 

 ruary 1835. 



The various official Reports having been received, the President 

 delivered the following Address : 

 Gentlemen, 



In the Report which has just been read to you, it is stated in what 

 manner the Council have adjudicated the proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Fund for the present year. To carry into effect that award is the 

 pleasing duty which 1 now have to perform. It is to me as well as 

 to Mr. Mantell a subject of deep regret that he cannot attend to 

 receive the prize in person. I shall deliver it, with your permission, 

 to Mr. Lyell, who will officiate as his representative on this occasion. 



Mr. Lyell, — In the name of the Geological Society I beg to com- 

 mit to your care the proceeds for the present year of a fund be- 

 queathed to us by one of the most eminent philosophers to whom 

 this country has given birth, and by him directed to be applied to 

 the furtherance of geological science. The Council are of opinion 

 that they cannot upon the present occasion more conscientiously 

 discharge the duty imposed upon them, than by awarding this prize 

 to Mr. Mantell. Zealously engaged as he is in the practice of an ar- 

 duous profession, we, his fellow labourers in this Society, have wit- 

 nessed with great satisfaction for a series of years his unceasing en- 

 deavours to unravel the geological phsenomena of the interesting 

 district around him. By long experience Mr. Mantell has acquired 



