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was made to the Address presented to His Majestj"^ the King on the 

 occasion of the death of Queen Victoria. After premising that the 

 financial prosperity of the Society was again a matter for congratu- 

 lation, the Council stated that the number of Fellows had undergone 

 scarcely any change during 1901. The number elected was 52 

 (7 less than in 1900), of whom 34 qualified before the end of the 

 year, making, with 17 previously elected Fellows, a total accession 

 of 51 in the course of the twelve months under review. During the 

 same period, the losses by death, resignation, and removal amounted 

 to 55, the actual decrease in the number of Fellows being therefore 

 4 (as compared with a decrease of 10 in 1900). 



The total number of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign 

 Correspondents, which on December 31st, 1900, was 1,334, had 

 decreased to 1,329 by the end of 1901. 



The balance-sheet for the year 1901 showed receipts to the 

 amount of £3,503 17s. Qd. (including a balance of £388 14s. lOdf. 

 brought forward from the previous year), and an expenditure of 

 £3,100 bs. 6d. The chief item of non-recurring expenditure was 

 the sum of £508 lis. Wd., being the cost of the redecoration of the 

 Society's apartments. The balance remaining available for the 

 current year was £403 12s. ^d. 



The Council announced the completion of vol. Ivii and the com- 

 mencement of vol. Iviii of the Society's Quarterly Journal. 



It was stated that Mr. C. Davies Sherborn had undertaken to 

 continue during the year 1902 the preparation of the Catalogue- 

 slips which the Society supplies to the Eegional Bureau of the 

 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. Further, the 

 services of Mr. Sherborn had been secured for the preparation of 

 a new Library Catalogue. 



Eeference was made to the work, which the Kev. J. F. Blake had 

 ofi'ered to undertake without remuneration, and upon which he was 

 now engaged, of editing and preparing for publication a catalogue of 

 the type- and other important specimens in the Societ3''s Museum. 

 Eeference was also made to the pamphlet by the Eev. J. F. Blake, 

 entitled " Suggestions for Certain Improvements, 1901," which had 

 been under the consideration of the Council. 



The establishment of the Trust which will henceforward be known 

 as the Daniel Pidgeon Fund was announced, and the list of awards 

 of the various Medals and proceeds of donation funds in the gift of 

 the Council was read. 



The report of the Library and Museum Committee enumerated the 

 extensive additions made to the Society's Library, and mentioned 

 that considerable progress had been made with the work of glazing 

 the drawers in the Museum. 



The reports having been received, the President handed the 

 Wollaston Modal, awarded to Dr. Friedrich Schmidt, F.M.G.S., of 

 St. Petersburg, to Professor H. G. Seeley, for transmission to 

 the recipient, addressing him as follows : — Professor Seeley, — 



Friedrich Schmidt is our chief liying authority upon the rocks and fossils of the 

 Baltic Provinces of Kussia. The work of ascertaining thfi order and organic remains 



