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wideninfi; tlie range of your studies by contiuuiug the Palirontograpliical Society's- 

 memoir on the Pleistocene Mammalia. "We cordially hope that many long years 

 of active scientific work are in store for you, and that you will continue to enrich our 

 Quarterly Journal with the results of your researches. 



In handing the other moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Lyell Geological Fund, awarded to Dr. Charles Alfred Matley, ta 

 Professor W. W. Watts, M.A., M.Sc, Sec. G.S., for transmission to 

 the recipient, the Chairman addressed him as follows : — Professor 

 Watts,— 



The other moiety of the Lyell fund has by the Council been assigned to 

 Dr. Matley, as an acknowledgment of the value of his work in elucidatiug the geology 

 of Anglesey, and to encourage him in further work. The complicated structure of 

 that part of Aorth Wales has long been recognised, but the natui'e and extent of 

 the complication have only been realised in recent years, since more enlarged and 

 accxu'ate views of geological tectonics have been reached. It would be rash to 

 assert that all the difficulties have been cleared away, but Dr. Matley has made 

 a notable forward .step in removing them. Besides his work in Anglesey, he 

 has devoted time and thought to the Cambrian formations of Pembrokeshire, 

 and to the Keuper Marls and Sandstones of Warwickshire. "We msh him many 

 years of health and continued geological industry. 



The Chairman then handed the Proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson 

 Fund, awarded to Mr. Hugh John Llewellyn Beadnell, to Major 

 C. E. Beadnell, late R.A., for transmission to the recipient, addressing 

 him in the following words : — Major Beadnell, — 



The Barlow - Jameson fund is awarded to youi- son, Mr. Hugh John Llewelhii 

 Beadnell, in recognition of the value of his memoirs on the topography of the Oases 

 and other districts of the libyau Desei't, and for his important collections of 

 vertebrate fossils made in Egypt during the last three years. The enthusiasm 

 with which he has prosecuted his researches in the Geological Survey of Egypt 

 led some time ago to an attack of fever which nearly proved fatal. We hop& 

 that he will be able henceforth to ward off all such attacks, and to continue the 

 career which he has so successfully begun. In transmitting to him this award of 

 the Council, you will not fail to convey to him an expression of our interest in 

 his researches, and of our hope that he will be encouraged to continue to pm-sue them. 



The Chairman then proceeded to read the Anniversary Address 

 that he had prepared, giving first of all obituary notices of several 

 Fellows deceased since the last annual meeting, including Mr. W. T. 

 Aveline (elected a Fellow in 1848), Mr. R. Etheridge (el. 1854), 

 Sir Charles Nicholson (el. 1841), Mr. W. Yicary (el. 1864). Dr. W. 

 Francis (el. 1859), the Eev. H. Maxwell Close (el. 1874), and 

 Dr. H. Exton (el. 1883) ; also of Professor J. P. Lesley (el. For. 

 Memb. 1887), Geheimrath K. A. von Zittel (el. For. Memb. 1889), 

 Professor A. F. Renard (el. For. Memb. 1884), and Herr Felix 

 Karrer (el. For. Corresp. 1890). 



He then dealt Avith the bearing of the evidence furnished by the 

 British Isles as to the problem whether in the so-called secular 

 elevation and subsidence of land it is the land or the sea which 

 moves. The first section dealt with the proofs of emergence of land, 

 as displayed in raised beaches or strand-lines. Objection was taken 

 to the explanation given by Professor Suess of the strand-lines of 

 the Norwegian fjords, which, the author maintained, do not mark 

 the levels of ancient ice-dammed lakes, but former margins of the 

 sea. A comparison was made of these strand-lines with the raised 



