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on Mineralogy <and Geology, to Charles Lyell, Esq. The first is for 

 Mr. Lubbock's highly valuable Investigations on the Tides, contained 

 in his papers published in the Philosophical Transactions. 



The second is awarded for Mr. Lyell's work, entitled " Principles 

 of Geology," on the following grounds, the Council at the same 

 time declining to express any opinion on the controverted positions 

 contained in that work. 



First, The comprehensive view which the author has taken of the 

 subject, and the philosophical spirit and dignity with which he has 

 treated it. 



Secondly, The important service he has rendered to science by 

 specially directing the attention of Geologists to effects produced by 

 existing causes. 



Thirdly, His admirable descriptions of many tertiary deposits ; 

 several of these descriptions being drawn from original observations. 



And lastly. The new mode of investigating tertiary deposits, 

 which his labours have greatly contributed to introduce ; namely, 

 that of determining the relative proportions of extinct and still ex- 

 isting species, with a view to discover the relative ages of distant 

 and unconnected tertiary deposits. 



llie Council, being unable to propose any specific Prize- Question 

 for the Royal Medal in Physics for the year 1837, propose to give 

 one of the Royal Medals for that year to the most important unpub- 

 lished paper in Physics, communicated to the Royal Society for in- 

 sertion in their Transactions, after the present date and prior to the 

 month of June 1837. 



The Council propose to give the other Royal Medals for the year 

 1837 to the author of the best paper, to be entitled " Contributions 

 towards a system of Geological Chronology, founded on an examina- 

 tion of fossil remains, and their attendant phsenomena." 



The following gentlemen were declared duly elected as composing 

 the Council and Officers for the ensuing year ; namely. 



President : His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, K.G. — 

 Treasurer : John William Lubbock, Esq., M.A. — Secretaries : Peter 

 Mark Roget, M.D.; John George Children, Esq. — Foreign Secre- 

 tary: Charles Konig, Esq. 



Other Members of the Council : Charles Frederick Barnwell, Esq. ; 

 Henry Thomas De la Beche, Esq. ; William Thomas Brande, Esq. ; 

 Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart. ; Michael Faraday, Esq. ; Henry 

 Holland, M.D. ; Rev. Philip Jennings, D.D. ; Charles Lyell, jun., 

 Esq. ; Herbert Mayo, Esq. ; Roderick Impey Murchison, Esq. ; Lord 

 Oxmantown ; Rev. George Peacock ; Rev. Baden Powell ; Sir John 

 Rennie ; Edward Turner, M.D. ; Rev. William Whewell. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Dec. 17th. — The reading of a paper •< On the physical and geo- 

 logical Structure of the Country to the west of the Dividing Range 

 between Hunter's River (lat. 32° S.) and Moreton Bay (lat. 27° S.), 

 with Observations on the Geology of Moreton Bay and Brisbane 

 River, New South Wales," by Allan Cunningham, Esq., and com- 



