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tlie illustrations having been drawn by tbe author himself. Mr. 

 Davidson, on receiving the Medal, requested the President to convey 

 his sincere thanks to the Council for the great honour they had done 

 him by this Award, which was the more welcome as it came to him 

 from the hands of one who is at the same time the President of both 

 the Geological and the Palaeontographical Societies. The President 

 then stated that the Balance of the Proceeds of the A^ollaston 

 Donation-fund had been awarded to J. W. Salter, Esq., in recog- 

 nition of his valuable services in the elucidation of Palaeozoic fossils, 

 and to assist him in completing his Monograph on British Ti-ilobites, 

 and placed it, together with a diploma to that effect, in the hands of 

 the eminent recipient. Mr. Salter briefly thanked the Society for 

 this testimony of their approbation. 



The President then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, 

 in which he discussed the progress of Geology during the past year, 

 prefacing it with biographical notices of lately deceased Pellows of 

 the Society, namely, Leonard Horner, Esq., Major- General Portlock, 

 the Venerable Archdeacon Buimey, Lord Ashburton, the Duke of 

 Newcastle, Prof. B. Silliman, Prof. Hitchcock, the Earl of Ilchester, 

 and Dr. Hugh Ealconer; he also gave a sketch of the chief labours 

 of the late Andrew Geddes Bain, Esq. 



The Ballot for the Council and Officers was taken, and the fol- 

 lowing were duly elected for the ensuing year : — President : Wil- 

 liam J. Hamilton, Esq., F.E.S. Vice-Fresidents : Edward Meryon, 

 M.D. ; J. Carrick Moore, Esq., E.E.S. ; Sir E. I. Murchison, K.C.B., 

 E.E.S. ; Prof. A. C. Eamsay, E.E.S. Secretaries : P. Martin Dun- 

 can, M.B. ; Warington "W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., E.E.S. Foreign 

 Secretary : E. A. C. Godwin- Austen, Esq., E.E.S. Treasurer : 

 Joseph Prestwich, Esq., E.E.S. 



Fehruary 22nd, 1865. 



The following communications were read : — 1. " On the Lower 

 Silurian Eocks of the South-East of Cumberland, and the North- 

 East of Westmoreland."— By Professor E. Harkness, E.E.S., E.G.S. 

 • The district described in this paper consists of a narrow band of 

 country on the western side of the Pennine Chain; it possesses 

 external features which indicate a geological structure different from 

 that of the Pennine escarpment, and from that of the adjacent 

 country on the west, from which it is separated by the Pennine 



