184 ReporU and Proceedings — 



The number of Fellows elected during the year was 76, of whom 

 56 qualified before the end of the year, together with 16 previously 

 elected Fellows, and these, with one Fellow readmitted, made a total 

 accession of 73 Fellows during 1890. As, however, from this 

 number a deduction of 43 was made for losses by death, resignation, 

 and removal, and for new Fellows compounding, the actual increase 

 in the number of Contributing Fellows was 30. The total number 

 of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign Correspondents at the 

 close of the year 1890 was 1405. 



The Balance-sheet for the year 1890 showed receipts to the 

 amount of £3034 8s. \d., and an expenditure of £2429 16s. 2d. 

 Further, a sum of £420 10s. was expended in the purchase of stock, 

 and the balance in favour of the Society at December 31, 1890, 

 amounted to £433 17s. 6d. 



The Council's Report also referred to the publication of the late 

 Mr. Ormerod's Third Supplement to his Index to the Publications 

 of the Society, to the editing of Nos. 183 and 184 of the Journal by 

 Prof. T. Eupert Jones, to the deaths of the late Foreign Secretary 

 and the late Assistant- Secretary, and in conclusion enumerated the 

 awards of the various Medals and Proceeds of Donation-Funds in 

 the gift of the Society. 



The Report of the Library and Museum Committee included a list 

 of the additions made during the past year to the Society's Library, 

 and announced the completion of the glazing of the Inner Museum, 



In presenting the WoUaston Medal to Piof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 

 the President addressed him as follows : — 



Professor Judd, — The Council haye awarded to you the "Wollaston Medal in recog- 

 nition of the important services rendered by you to Geological science, especially in 

 the department of Petrography. In recalling for a moment the value and extent 

 of these services, I am reminded that, after showing your powers by an excellent 

 paper on the strata of the Lincolnshire Wolds, you began your geological career in 

 the Geological Survey under Murchison, and that you had thus a favourable oppor- 

 tunity of acquiring that practical acquaintance with the details of geological structure 

 which can in no way be so thoroughly mastered as by actual patient mapping. Your 

 volume on the "Geology of Eutland" proved how well you had profited by the 

 advantages which your official duties aflorded you. From the Jurassic rocks of 

 England, which you had studied in minute detail, you were led to undertake the 

 investigation of those of Scotland, which you succeeded in reducing to order, bringing 

 them into closer relationship with their equivalents in the southern part of the United 

 Kingdom. 



It was in the course of those northern expeditions that you were drawn from the 

 field of stratigraphy into the study of volcanic rocks, to which you have since 

 devoted so large a part of your time and thought, and in the study of which you 

 have joui'neyed far and wide in this country, and huve extended your travels to the 

 islands of the Mediterranean. The problems presented by these rocks in the field 

 led you to seek the aid of the microscope, and to enter upon a course of distinguished 

 petrographical research. I trust that the award of this Medal will be received by 

 you as a mark of the estimation in which your work is held by the Society in whose 

 Quarterly Journal most of it has been published. 



Prof. Judd, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — It is a source of legitimate gratifica- 

 tion to the student of science, when a favourable judgment on his efforts is pronounced 

 by his contemporaries and fellow-workers. In receiving this highly-prized mark of 

 your approval, I would fain forget for one moment, if that were possible, how far 

 the work — of which you have spoken in such graceful terms — falls in amount below 

 my hopeful anticipations of the past, how it fails to reach the standard of excellence 



