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_ Fellows. The Council stated that Mr. Ormerod had furnished 
a second Supplement to his Classified Index to the publications 
of the Society, bringing that work down to the end of 1882. The 
Council’s Report further announced the awards of the various 
_ Medals and of the proceeds of the Donation Funds in the gift of 
the Society. 
_In presenting the Wollaston Gold Medal to Mr, W. T. 
Blanford, F.R.S., F.G.S., the President addre sed him as follows : 
“Mr. Blanford,—The Council has awarded you its highest dis- 
tinction, the Woliaston Medal, in recognition of your services to 
geology in Abyssinia, in Per-ia, and on the Geological Survey of 
the Indian Empire. They are so well and so generally known 
that it is not necessary for me to enlarge upon them here. Your 
writings, which treat of a not inconsiderable portion of the 
Eastern Hemisphere, comprise, in addition to geology, much in- 
formation respecting zoology and the climates of the countries in 
which you served. Stamped with thoroughness and comprehen- 
siveness, they constitute important addivions to our knowledge of 
those regions. In conferring upon you this distinction, the 
Council of the Geological Society desires to mark its sense of 
their great value.” 
The President then handed the balance of the proceeds of the 
Wollaston Donation Fund to Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., for 
transmission to Prof. John Milne, F.G.S., of Tokio, Japan, andad- 
dressed him as follows: “ Prof. Judd,—The Council, in bestowing 
upon Mr, Milne the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston 
Fund, wishes to mark its appreciation of the importance of his 
. investigations into the phenomena of earthquakes, to which he 
has devoted so much time and attention during his residence in 
Japan. In handing to you this cheque for transmission to him, 
I would ask you to convey to him the hopes of the Council that 
this award may assist him in continuing those inquiries in 
Seismology which he has proved himself so well able to 
undertake.” 
In handing the Murchison Medal to Mr. Warington W. Smyth, 
F.R.S., for transmission to Prof. Heinrich Robert Géppert, 
F.M.G.S., of Breslau, the President said: “Mr. Warington 
Smyth,—The Council of the Geological Society has awarded 
one of its high distinctions, the Murchison Medal and a part of 
the proceeds of the Murchison Fund, to Prof. H. R. Goppert of 
reslau, one of our Foreign Members, in recognition of his 
bours in fossil botany. The very large number of papers, 245, 
recorded in the Scientific List of the Royal Society under Prof. 
Goppert’s name, testifies to the zeal and success with which he 
has cultivated this branch of biology during half a century. In 
asking you to transmit to him this Medal, I would desire you to 
express to him the high estimation in which this Society holds 
his work.” 
The President then handed to Prof. Morris, F.G.S., for trans- 
mission to Mr. John Young, F.G.S., the balance of the proceeds 
of the Murchison Donation Fund, and said : “ Professor Morris, — 
The Council of the Geological Society, in awarding to Mr. John 
Young, of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, the balance of the 
proceeds of the Murchison Donation Fund, wishes to mark its 
appreciation of the value of his long-continued researches on the 
fossil polyzoa, especially those of the western part of Scotland, 
_and of his investigations into the structure of the shells of the 
Carboniferous Brachiopoda. In his absence, I have much 
pore in placing the amount in your hands for transmission to 
- him. 
The President next presented the Lyell Medal to Dr. W. B. 
Carpenter, F.R.S., and addressed him in the following words: 
“‘Dr, Carpenter,—The Council of the Geological Society has 
awarded to you the Lyell Medal with (in compliance with the 
terms of the bequest) a portion of the proceeds of the Lyell Fund, 
in recognition of the great value of your investigations into the 
minute structure of invertebrate fossils and your deep-sea 
researches. Your contributions ‘On the Structure and Affinities 
of the Eozoon Canadense,’ ‘On the Microscopic Structure of 
Nummulina, Orbitolites, and Orbitoides,’ published in our 
Journal, your numerous papers on the intimate structure of 
shells, communicated to the Royal Society, and others published 
in the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History,’ your long- 
continued work on Foraminifera, your communications on 
Oceanic Circulation and on Abyssal Life-forms, all testify to a 
life-long devotion to branches of natural knowledge bearing on 
that department of science, the cultivation of which is the raison 
@ ttre of this Society. I count it a pleasure, Dr. Carpenter, that 
it has devolved upon me to hand you this Medal. ” 
In presenting one moiety of balance of the Lyell Donation 
Fund to Mr. P. Herbert Carpenter, the President addressed him 
as follows: ‘‘Mr. P. Herbert Carpenter,—The Council of the 
Geological Society, in awarding to youa portion of the balance 
of the proceeds of the Lyell Donation Fund, desires to express 
its sense of the great value of your researches into the structure 
and relationship of several families of fossil Echinodermata. 
Your papers ‘On some little-known Jurassic Crinoids,’ ‘On 
the Cretaceous Comatulz,’ ‘On the Crinoids from the Upper 
Chalk,’ and that read last session, ‘On Hybocrinus, Baerocrinus, 
and Hybocystites,’ are models of clearness and an excellent 
earnest of future work. The Council hopes that this award may 
aid you in continuing those lines of research in which you have 
already achieved signal success.” 
The President then handed the second moiety of the balance 
of the Lyell Donation Fund to Prof, Seeley, F.R.S., for trans- 
mission to M. E. Rigaux of Boulogne, and said: *‘ Professor 
Seeley,—In conferring upon M. Rigaux a portion of the balance 
of the proceeds of the Lyell Donation Fund, the Council of the 
Geological Society desires to signify its estimation of the value it 
places on his researches in the Jurassic formations of the 
Boulonnais and their contained fossils. In asking you to trans- 
mit tohim this cheque, I would desire you to convey to him with 
it our hopes that he may continue those lines of inquiry in 
prosecuting which he has attained so great success.” 
The President finally presented the Bigsby Gold Medal to Dr. 
Henry Hicks, F.G.S., and addressed him in the following 
words: ‘*Dr. Hicks,—The Council, in conferring on you the 
Bigsby Medal as a mark of their appreciation of your labours 
amongst the oldest fossiliferous and the Archzean rocks of Great 
Britain and Ireland, feels, in your community of interests, a 
peculiar fitness in associating you with the memory of the founder 
of this distinction. Your numerous communications, beginning 
with one ‘On the genus Axofolenus,’ written in 1865, and 
culminating in that which you read at our last meeting, show to 
what good purpose you have employed the hore subsecive of a 
busy professional life in prosecuting those researches which have 
had a distinct effect on geological thought. In handing to you 
this Medal, I would express the wish that you will continue to 
prosecute the line of inquiry to which you have so long and so 
successfully devoted your leisure hours.” 
The President then read his Anniversary Address, in which he 
passed in review the work done by the Geological Society during 
the past year, and discussed at considerable length a question 
arising out of this review, namely, the structural characters pre- 
sented by the sternal framework and the limbs of Enaliosaurians, 
and the classificational value which they possess. He also referred 
to the discoveries which have been lately made in America of 
numerous remains of Pterosaurians, often of eigantic size ; 
adverted to the proceedings of the International Geological 
Congress, held in 1881, at Bologna, and noticed, as one 
gratifying result of the latter, the establishment of an Italian 
Geological Society. 
The ballot for the Council and Officers was taken, and 
the following were duly elected for the ensuing year :— 
President: J. W. Hulke, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: Prof. 
P. M. Duncan, F.R.S.; R. Etheridge, F.R.S.; J. Gwyn 
Jeffreys, F.R.S.; Prof. J. Prestwich, F.R.S. Secretaries: 
Prof, T. G. Bonney, F.R.S.; Prof. J. W. Judd, .&.S. Foreign 
Secretary : Warington W. Smyth, F.R.S. Treasurer: Prof. T. 
Wiltshire, F.L.S. Council: H. Bauerman; W. 7. Blandford, 
F.R.S.; Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S.; W. Carruthers, F.R.S. ; 
Prof. P. M. Duncan, F.R.S.; R. Etheridge, P.R.S. ; John 
Evans, F.R.S.; A. Geikie, F.R.S.; Rev. Edwin Hill, M.A, ; 
G. J. Hinde, Ph.D. ; Prof. T. M‘Kenny Hughes, M.A. ; J. W. 
Hulke, F.R.S. ; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S.; Prof. T. Rupert 
Jones, F.R.S.; Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S.; 5S. R. Pattison ; 
J. A. Phillips, F.R.S.; Prof. J. Prestwich, F.R.S.; F. W. 
Rudler ; Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S.; Warington W. Smyth, 
F.R.S.; W. Topley ; Prof. T. Wiltshire, F.1.5. 
Physical Society, February 10.—Prof, Fuller in the chair. 
— Annual general meeting.—New officers electe: the year :— 
President : Prof. R. B. Clifton, M.A., F.R.S. Vic esidents: Sir 
W. Thomson, Prof. G. C. Foster, F.R.S., Dr, ‘!. Hopkinson, 
F.R.S., Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., Prof. W. C. berts, F.R.S. 
Secretaries: Prof. A. W. Reinold, M.A., M Valter Baily, 
M.A, Treasurer: Dr. E. Atkinson. Demonstrator: Prof, F. 
Guthrie, F.R.S. Other Members of Council: Prof. W. G. 
Adams, M.A., F.R.S., Prof. W. E. Ayrt F.R.S., Mr. 
Shellford Bidwell, M.A., LL.B., Mr. W. H. M. Chuistie, M.A., 
