Reports and Proceedings—Geological Society of London. 1838 
REPORTS AND PROCHEDINGS. 
GroLocicaL Soctery or Lonpon: ANnuAL GENERAL MEETING. 
I. February 18, 1910.—Professor W. J. Sollas, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., 
President, in the Chair. 
The Reports of the Council and of the Library and Museum 
Committee, proofs of which had been previously distributed to the 
Fellows, were read. It was stated that the number of Fellows 
elected during the past year was 64 (as compared with 52 in 1908). 
Of these, 40 paid their Admission Fees before the end of the year, 
making, with 15 previously elected Fellows, a total accession of 55 in 
the course of 1909. The losses by death, resignation, and removal 
amounted to 44 (3 less than in 1908), the actual increase in the 
number of Fellows being, therefore, 11 (as compared with an increase 
of 5 in 1908). The total number of Fellows on December 31, 1909, 
was 1294. 
The Balance Sheet for that year showed receipts to the amount of 
£3089 8s. 4d. (excluding £2000, the amount of the Sorby and 
Hudleston Bequests, and the Balance of £198 0s. 2d. brought forward 
from 1908) and an Expenditure of £3125 19s. 4d. 
The Report of the Library and Museum Committee enumerated the 
extensive additions made during 1909 to the Society’s Library, and 
gave details of the progress accomplished by Mr. C. D. Sherborn in the 
compilation and arrangement of the great Card Catalogue. 
The Reports having been received, the President requested the 
permission of the Fellows to send a telegram of congratulation to 
Emeritus Professor E. Suess, F.M.G.S., and, this permission having 
been granted with acclamation, the following telegram was immediately 
dispatched to Vienna :— 
“Professor E. Suess, Afrikanergasse, 9 Wien, II. The Geological Society, 
assembled at its Annual Meeting, sends greeting, and offers its congratulations to 
the veteran author of Das Antlitz der Erde on the completion of bis great work.— 
Sollas, President.’’ 
The President then handed the Wollaston Medal, awarded to 
Professor William Berryman Scott, F.G.S., to the American Ambassador 
for transmission to the recipient, addressing the Ambassador as 
follows :— 
Mr. Whitelaw Reid,—The Council of the Geological Society has awarded the 
Wollaston Medal, the highest honour which it can confer, to Professor William 
B. Scott, in recognition of his distinguished services to Geology, especially by his 
brilliant researches into the Mammalia of the Tertiary Era. 
It is now many years since Professor Scott learnt from our famous masters, 
Huxley and Gegenbaur, all that the old world had to teach touching the com- 
parative anatomy of the Vertebrata. Since then, by his admirable researches on 
the extinct mammals of both North and South America, he has helped to bring 
the New World into equal authority with the Old. 
More than a quarter of a century ago he undertook, in company with his friend 
Professor Osborn, those exploratory expeditions into the West of the United States 
which succeeded in exhuming from the Tertiary rocks the debris of successive 
mammalian faunas, and returned to the museums of the East laden with the spoils 
of the past. TIllumined by his genius, this material has gradually taken form, and 
