288 Reports & Proceedings — Palceontographical Society. 



II. — Pal^ontographical Society. 



Annual General Meeting. 



April 25, 1919.— Dr. Henry Woodward, F.Fi.S , President, in the 



Chair. 

 The Council presented its seventy - second annual report and 

 announced the completion of the seventy-first volume of monographs, 

 comprising instalments of "Wealden and Purbeck Pishes, Pliocene 

 Mollusca, Cambrian Trilobites, and Palaeozoic Asterozoa. It referred 

 to the increased cost of publication, and the consequent reduction in 

 the size of the annual volume. It also appealed to members to help 

 in making the work of the Society more widely known so that the 

 number of subscribers might be increased. The officers were 

 re-elected, and Messrs. H. Dewey, F. L. Kitchin, W. P. D. Stebbing, 

 and H. Woods were elected new members of Council. 



OBITUAEY". 



CAPTAIN T. E. G. BAILEY, B.A., F.G.S. 

 Captain T. E. G. Bailey, B.A., F.G.S. , was killed in action on 

 April 2, 1919, while serving in North Russia. Bailey will long be 

 remembered for his share in "The Geology of Nyassaland" published 

 in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1910. The 

 paper in question was written in conjunction with Mr. A. R. 

 Andrew, and gives the geological results of a mineral survey carried 

 out for the Imperial Institute during the years 1906-8. Since then 

 Bailey did much good work as an oil-geologist in Burma and 

 Borneo until the outbreak of war. He came home from Borneo to 

 take a temporary commission in the Yorkshire Regiment, and with 

 them he served in France during the years 1915-18. He was 

 promoted for his services during the Battle of the Somme, 1916, and 

 was severely wounded in the Battle of Arras, 1917. In November, 

 1918, he was sent to Russia. 



FERNAND PRIEM. 

 Born November 10, 1857. Died April 4, 1919. 



Professor Fernand Priem was one of the most successful students 

 of fossil fishes and made many important contributions to our 

 knowledge. He was born at Bergues, near Dunkerque, and after 

 graduating in the University of Paris he studied palaeontology under 

 the late Professor Albert Gaudry. He became honorary Professor of 

 Geology in the Lyceum of Henry IY and correspondent of the 

 National Museum of Natural History, Paris. For many years most 

 of his energies were devoted to research, and his numerous writings 

 on fossil fishes are as valuable for their bearing on strati graphical 

 geology as on ichthyology. Besides papers published by the 

 Geological Society of France, he wrote a memoir on the fossil fishes 

 of the Paris Basin for the Annales de Paleontologie (1908) and 

 a report on the Cretaceous fishes collected by the De Morgan Mission 

 in Persia. 



A. S. W. 



