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Ovsyannikov, but it is evident from the list of promised contributors 

 that geology will not be neglected. This list includes, in addition 

 to those who have written in the first number, such geologists as 

 Inostrantzev, Karplnskil, Amalltzkil, Andrusov, Dokuchaev, Vernad- 

 skii, and Nlkolskil, while the mineralogists are represented by 

 Eremyeev, Zemyatchenskii, and Tlkhomirov. J. W. G. 



REPORTS .A-ZEsTID IPIROCIEIEIDIIriTa-S- 



Geological Society, of London. 



I. — Annual General Meeting, February 21, 1890. — Dr. W. T. 

 Blanford, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretaries read the Reports of the Council and of the Library 

 and Museum Committee for the year 1889. In the former the 

 Council had again to congratulate the Fellows upon the continued 

 and apparently increasing prosperity of the Society, the affairs of 

 which were in a very satisfactory condition. The number of Fellows 

 elected during the year was 66, of whom 46 qualified before the 

 end of the year, together with 15 previously elected Fellows, and 

 these, with one Fellow readmitted, made a total accession of 62 

 Fellows during 1889. Deducting from this, however, 38 for losses 

 by death, resignation, and removal, and for new Fellows compound- 

 ing, the actual increase in the number of Contributing Fellows 

 amounts to 24. The Balance-sheet for the year 1889 showed 

 receipts to the amount of £k!775 14s. 3d., and a total expenditure 

 of JE2775 2s. Id., including a sum of £198 5s. Gd. expended in the 

 purchase of stock. The balance in favour of the Society at 31st 

 December was £249 4s. Id The Council's Report also referred to 

 the Revision of the Bye-Laws completed in the spring of 1889, and 

 in conclusion announced the awards of the various Medals and of 

 the proceeds of the Donation Funds in the gift of the Society. The 

 Report of the Library and Museum Committee enumerated the 

 additions made during the past year to the Society's Library and 

 Collections, and referred briefly to the work done in the Museum, 

 especially with regard to the glazing of the drawers in the Cabinets. 



In handing the Wollaston Medal to Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., for 

 transmission to Prof. W. Crawford Williamson, F.R.S., the President 

 addressed him as follows : — 



Professor Judd, — The Council have awarded the Wollaston Medal for the present 

 year to Prof. W. C. Williamson, in recognition of his researches in Palffiontonlogy, 

 and especially of the series of important papers in which he has described the struc- 

 ture of the plants that have contributed to the formation of Coal. His investigations 

 have added greatly to our knowledge of the Carboniferous flora, and have enabled us 

 to form a much clearer idea of the plant-life in those far distant days of the Palreozoic 

 era than was previously possible. Although Professor Williamson's attention has 

 now for many years been especially devoted to the examination of fossil plants, he 

 had, before his researches on ancient botany commenced, added many valuable details 

 to our knowledge of the fossiliferous rocks of Yorkshire and Lancashire, and he had 

 contributed greatly to the natural history of recent and fossil Foraminifera, whilst in 

 a paper published more than 40 years ago, on some of the microscopical objects found 

 in the mud of the Levant and other deposits, with remarks on the mode of formation 



