LnfNEAy SOCIETY OF LOXDOK. 29 



1896. 

 4.4.. Rothschild, W. Further Notes on Gigantic Land-Tortoises. 

 Xov. Zool. iii. 189G, pp. So -'.)!. 



45. Gu.NTHEU, A. Testudo ephqjpiuui. Nov. Zool. iii. 1896, pp. 329- 



334, pis. 20-22. 



46. VoKLTZKOW, A. Riesenscliildkroten von Aldabra. Zoolog. Gart. 



1896, pp. 30-31. 



1897. 



47. Oliver, P. The Voyages made bv the Sieur D. B. to the i-^lands 



Dauphine or Madagascar, Bourbon or Mascarenne in the years 

 1669-72. Translated and elited by Capt. P. O. London, 1897. '8vo. 



48. Rothschild, W. Further Notes on Gigantic Land-Tortoises. Nov. 



Zool. iv. pp. 407-8, pi. 13. 



49. Bauu, G. New Observations on the Origin of the Galapagos Islands, 



with Remarks on the Gejloijical Age of the Pajitic Ocean. Am. 

 Nat. 1897, pp. 061-080, 804-896. 



1898. 



50. V.AILLAXT, L. Desins inedits de Cheloniens, tire; des Manu^crits 



de Comoiersou. Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. pp. 133-139 (with wood- 

 cuts). 



1664. 



51. Kerckhovkx, Johannes van. Wytloopig breade en waerachtige 



beschryvinge van de ongeluckige voyage van't schip Aernhem ; van 

 Batavia vertrocken den 23 December IGiil in compagnie van no-^h 

 ses andere schepen. onder 't commando van de heer Aernout de 

 Jlamiii(/h van Ontahoorn. Ilaer honist met de boot van't verloore 

 schip op het eylandt Mauritius, met de beschi'vvinge van 't selbe 

 eylandt, etc. J^eschraven door J. v. K., van Middelborg. Amster- 

 dam, 1004. 4to : pp. 28. 



Sir Jolin Murray tlien moved : — " That the thanks o£ the 

 Society be given to the President for Ms exeelleut iVddress, 

 and tliat he be requested to allow it to be printed and circulated 

 a nongst the Fellows;" and this, having been seconded by 

 Prof. Charles Stewart, was carried unanimously. 



The Gold Medal of the Society was formallv awarded to Sur- 

 geon-Major GrEORGE Chaeles Wallich, M.D., in recognition 

 of his researches into the problcns connected wirh bathyi)ial and 

 pelagic life. In consequence of his inability lo attend in person, 

 his son was deputed to receive it on his behalf. In presenting 

 the medal the President, Dr. Griiuther, spoke as follows : — 



" The gold medal of the Society is awarded this year to a zoo- 

 logist, to Dr. George Charles Wallich. Although Dr. TVallich's 

 scientific work commenced some years before, it was the 

 year 1860 in which he entered upon the line of inquiry with 

 which his name will be ever associated. Ou the recommendation 

 of Sir Koderick Murchison and Prof. Huxley he was attached iu 

 that year as naturalist to H.M.S. ' Bulldog,' ou her voyage across 

 the Atlantic to survey the sea-bottom for the laying of the pro- 

 posed Ailautic cable. The materials obtained by the sounding 



