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the Members are familiar with the details it is unnecessary for your 

 Council to do more on this occasion than to put on record that the 

 Committee decided to offer a prize annually, of the value of £10, to be 

 called by the permission — very cordially granted — of Mr. Charles Dar- 

 win, F.R.S., 'The Darwin Prize, 'for a paper indicating Original Research 

 upon a Subject within the scope of your Societies, contributed by a 

 Member for publication in the " Midland Naturalist" that Geology was 

 selected as the subject for 1881 ; that contributions should be sent in 

 on or before the 31st March last ; and that a Committee of five should 

 be chosen to adjudicate the prize, and declare the adjudication at the 

 Annual Meeting. The Committee of Adjudicators consisted of 



Dr. Thos. Weight, F.R.S. 



Rev. Geo. Deane, D.Sc, M.A., F.G.S. 



Professor Chakles Lapworth, F.G.S. 



Mr. J. J. Harris Teall, M.A., F.G.S., and 



Mr. W. Jerome Harrison, F.G.S., 

 the last named gentleman being requested to act as Secretary to the 

 Committee. Your Council have received from Mr. Hai'rison the 

 following report : — 



"REPORT OF THE ADJUDICATORS. 



(DRAWN UP BY THE SECRET.ART, W. JEROME HARRISON, F.G.S.) 



" Having very carefully considered the papers laid before them, 

 the adjudicators have come to the decision, by a majority of four to 

 one, that the paper by Edward Wilson, Esq., F.G.S., of Nottingham, 

 on ' The Permian Formation in the Xorth-east of England, with 

 special reference to the physical conditions under which these rocks 

 were formed,' * is deserving of the Darwin Medal for 1881, and 

 they recommend that to Mr. Wilson the medal should be awarded. 



'• In Mr. Wilson's paper a full and admirably drawn up summary of 

 our knowledge respecting an entire geological formation is presented 

 to us ; the materials are marshalled in a masterly manner, and the 

 conclusions arrived at in a natural, clear, and definite way. But in 

 addition, much of the evidence cited by the author is the remit of his 

 own original investigation, carried on for many years in the district to 

 which he refers, and involving the application of almost every method 

 of geological inquiry. 



" The Adjudicators also note two other short but valuable papers 

 by Mr. Wilson, on (1) ' Fossil Fish Remains from the Carboniferous 

 Limestone of South Derbyshire,' f and (2) ' The Occurrence of 

 Foraminifera in the Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire.' t 



"June 13th, 1881." 



Your Council have pleasure in stating that, in accordance with 

 this Report, they have awarded the Darwin Medal to Mr. Wilson, 

 and congratulate that gentleman on his success. 



The subjects for " The Darwin Prize" for the two years ensuing are, 

 in 1882 Biology ; in 1883 Archaeology. 



The ex-President of the Union, Sir Herewald Wake, Bart., on 

 the 28th July last, authorised the Honorary Secretaries of the Union 

 to offer in his name a Prize of Books, of the value of £5, for " the best 

 Original Essay on the Life History of any one genus of Lisects indige- 

 nous to the Midland Counties, written by a Member of one of the 

 Societies in the Union." Your Council regret they have to announce 

 that Sir Herewald Wake has received no response to his generous 



* Mid. Nat. vol. iv., p. 97. &c. \ Mid. Nat. vol. iii., p. 17:2. 



; Mid. Nat. vol. iii., p. 220, 



