Reports and Proceedings — Geological Society of London. 181 



figured by Mr. Etheridge. Mr. L. Glauert contributes particulars 

 relating to Sthenurus occidentalism with illustrations ; a list of Western 

 Australian fossils; notes on new fossils (Devonian) from tbe Napier 

 Range, Kimberley ; and remarks on the geological age of the Gingin 

 ' Cbalk ', which is Cretaceous. 



Bulletin No. 38 (1910) consists of a well-illustrated report on the 

 Irwin River Coal-field, by Mr. W. D. Campbell. This contains not 

 only an account of the Carboniferous and Permo-Carboniferous strata, 

 but also of the newer and older rocks of the district, and notes on 

 diatomaceous deposits, gypsum, cave guano, and salt. 



ZRIEIFOIEITS .A-HSTID PEOCEEDI1TGS. 



Geological Society of London : Annual General Meeting. 



1. February 17, 1911.— Professor W. W. Watts, ScD., M.Sc, F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The Repoi'ts of the Council and of the Library and Museum 

 Committee, proofs of which had been previously distributed to the 

 Fellows, were read. The total number of Fellows on December 31, 

 1910, was 1,299, being an increase of 5 during the year. No losses 

 had occurred in the Lists of Foreign Members and Foreign Corre- 

 spondents during the year. 



The Balance Sheet for that year showed receipts to the amount of 

 £3,159 17s. 2d. (excluding £100, the amount of the Hannah Bequest, 

 and the Balance of £ 1 78 18s. 2d. brought forward from 1909), and 

 an Expenditure of £2,985 16s. 2d. 



The Report having been received, the President handed the Wollaston 

 Medal, awarded to Professor "Waldemar Christofer Brogger, F.M.G.S., 

 to His Excellency Benjamin Vogt, Minister Plenipotentiary for the 

 ICingdom of Norway, addressing him as follows : — 



Your Excellency, — It is most fitting that the medal which bears the 

 honoured name of Wollaston, and was founded by that eminent and 

 philosophical mineralogist, should be awarded to Professor Brogger, who is not 

 only an accomplished chemist and a skilful mineralogist, but a great petrologist. 

 If he had published nothing but his work on these subjects, he would stand in 

 the first rank of living geologists. But he has done far more. His researches 

 on the Cambrian and Ordovician rocks of his own country have proved him to 

 be a brilliant palaeontologist and stratigrapher. His detailed mapping and 

 interpretation of the structure of the Christiania area and his explanation of the 

 origin of the Christiania Fjord, have proved him to be a tectonic geologist of 

 the highest order. His researches on the differentiation of rock-rnagmas have 

 made him one of our foremost teachers of petrogenesis. He has conducted an 

 exhaustive research on the Glacial and post-Glacial changes in Southern 

 Norway, and has expressed his results so cogently that we seem to see with 

 our own eyes the ice-sheets retreating, the seas advancing and retiring, and to 

 feel the climate slowly changing during the deposition of the clays and shell- 

 gravels of your country. He has brought his work on the strand-lines into 

 touch with the ages of man, and has even endeavoured to express these later 

 stages of geological time in terms of years. Nor has his lifework been devoted 

 to science alone ; he has served his fellow-countrymen as a member of the 

 National Legislature and his colleagues as the Bector of his University. 



But it is not so much the quantity as the quality of Professor Brogger's work 

 that constitutes his claim to the Wollaston Medal. His scientific training has 



