Reports and Proceedings—Geological Society of London. 175 
VI.— Annuaire Ghotociqur Untverset. Revun pe Gionocig rr 
PaLEONTOLOGIE, DIRIGE&E PAR Dr. L. Carez POUR LA PARTIE 
GéoLogique, ET H. DovuvinLi PoUR LA PARTIE PALG®ONTOLO- 
GIQUE, AVEC LE CONCOURS DE NOMBREUX GEoLOGUES FRANCAIS 
gt Erraneers. Publié par le Dr. Dactncourr. Tome III. 
Paris, 1887. 8vo. 1" partie, Géologie, pp. xxvii. and 777; 2° 
partie, Paléontologie, pp. vii. and 236. 
HIS third volume of the Annuaire Géologique Universel—a 
ii massive book of more than a thousand pages—has attained 
a development far in advance of its two predecessors. It contains 
a well-arranged Bibliography of the works published on the several 
different branches of geological science, and a comprehensive review 
of the geological and paleontological discoveries and work done and 
in progress in the different countries of the globe during the year 
1886. This summary cannot fail to be of material assistance to all 
students of the science, and we hope it will have the wide circula- 
tion which it deserves. 
Jee ISI SONS BS) (VEIN aD) ASS (OS sh DAN Ke WS 
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GrotoaicaL Society or Lonpon. 
I. —Annvat Generat Meetine, February 17, 1888.—Prof. J. W. 
Judd, 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 1887. The Council stated that 
they had again to congratulate the Fellows upon the continued pros- 
perity of the Society, although they had to state, with regret, that 
there was a diminution in the total number of Fellows. The number 
elected during the year was 46, and the total accession 58; but the 
losses by death, resignation, etc., amounted to 60, causing an actual 
decrease of 7 in the number of Fellows. Nevertheless from the 
large proportion of compounders and non-contributing Fellows 
deceased, the actual number of contributing Fellows was in- 
creased by 7. The balance-sheet showed receipts to the amount of 
£2760 15s. 9d., and an expenditure of £2961 15s. 8d., being an 
excess of expenditure of £200 19s. 1ld., caused by the expense 
incurred in the necessary repairs, painting, etc., of the house occupied 
by the Society ; but notwithstanding this and the addition of £250 
to the amount of the Society’s funded property, the accounts showed 
a balance in the Society’s favour. 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. Henry Benedict 
Medlicott, M.A., F.R.S., the President addressed him as follows :— 
Mr. Medlicott,—The Council of this Society are not unmindful of the fact that 
many of our Fellows are engaged in the promotion of geological science in every 
part of a vast empire; in awarding to you the highest honour which is at their 
disposal, they are following a precedent which was established more than fifty years 
ago, by the presentation of the Wollaston Medal to Cautley and Falconer. In that 
great Indian dominion where those famous geologists carried on their important 
