182 Reports and Proceedings — Geological Society of London. 



Geological Society of London. 



L— February 19tb, 1904.— Sir Archibald Geikie. Sc.D., D.C.L., 



Sec. R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Annual General Meeting. 



The Chairman read the following letter which had been addressed 



to him by the President : — 



Fehrnary 9fh, 1904. 

 " Dear Sir Archibald, 



" Please kindly convey to the Council, the Officers, and the Fellows of the 

 Geological Society my sincere regrets that I am not yet well enough to attend 

 the Anniversary Meeting, and personally thank them for the honour they paid 

 me in making me their ]?resident, and for their unfailing goodness to me during 

 my tenure of office. 



' ' I shall also be grateful if you will congratulate on my behalf the new President 

 and the recipients of Medals and Awards ; and assure the Fellows of my constant 

 s)'mpathy with, and faith in, the continued progress of the Society, and of my hope 

 to be soon once more amongst them as a fellow-worker. 



" Thanking Mr. Teall and yourself for your great kindness in taking over my 

 Presidential work for me during my illness, and so relievmg me of all responsiliility, 



" I remain, dear Sir Archibald, 

 Sincerely yours, 

 " Su- Archibald Geikie, D.C.L., Sec.R.S." " Charles Lapworth. 



A telegram expressing the Society's sympathy with Professor 

 Lapworth and good wishes for his prompt convalescence was, with 

 the approval of all the Fellows present, despatched to him. 



The Keports of the Council and of the Lil)rary and Museum 

 Committee for the year 1903, proofs of which had been previously 

 distributed to the Fellows, were then read. 



The reports having been received and adopted, the Chairman 

 handed the Wollaston Medal, awarded to Professor Albert Heim, 

 of Ziirich, to Mr. J. J. H. Teall, M.A., F.R.S., for transmission to 

 the recipient, addressing him as follows : — Mr. Teall, — 



The Council of the Geological Society of London have awarded to Professor Heim 

 the highest honour which they have to bestow, the Wollaston Medal, in recognition 

 of the value of his researches concerning the mineral structure of the Earth, and 

 more especially of his contributions towards the elucidation of the structure of 

 mountain-masses, as illustrated in the chain of the Alps. In his great monograph, 

 the " Mechanismus der Gebirgsbildung," he traced with remarkable skill the influence 

 of plication in the terrestrial crust, following this influence step by step from the 

 distortion and fracture of organic remains in hand-specimens up to the most gigantic 

 foldings which have comprised a vast mountain-chain in their embrace. His 

 researches, however, have not been confined to the internal structure of the Alps. 

 He has devoted himself with not less enthusiasm and success to the study of their 

 glaciers and their landslips. Gifted with no ordinary artistic power, he has been able 

 to enrich geological science with a valuable series of landscape drawings and sections, 

 in which the intimate relations of geology and topography are admirably delineated. 

 His latest achievement in this department is a large model of the massif of the 

 Hohe Santis, Avhich was exhibited at the recent meeting of the International 

 Geological Congress in Vienna. It was admitted by the assembled geologists to 

 be probably the most accurate and Ijeautiful model of a mountain-group that had 

 ever been constructed. We may judge of the labour and enthusiasm spent on it 

 from the fact that, besides climbing to every crest of that rugged tract, Prof. Heim 

 made many ascents in a balloon, so as to obtain detailed and comprehensive bird's-eye 

 ■\iews of the whole region which he wished to depict. In asking you to be so good 

 as to transmit to him this Medal, I would request you to convey with it an expression 



