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that the balance of the proceeds of the WoUaston Donation Fund 

 had been awarded to Mr. Henry Woodward to assist him in carrying 

 on his researches on the Fossil Crustacea, and placed it, together 

 with a diploma to that eifect, in the hands of that gentleman. Mr. 

 Henry Woodward briefly thanked the Society for this testimony of 

 the interest they took in his researches, and referred to the greater . 

 advantages enjoyed by the younger palaeontologists than had been 

 within the grasp of their predecessors. 



The President then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, 

 in which he discussed the progress of Greology during the past year, 

 prefacing it with biographical notices of latelj'' deceased Fellows, 

 Foreign Members, and Foreign Correspondents of the Society, 

 namely, Henry Christy, Esq. ; Sir J, W. Lubbock, Bart. ; Dr. S. P. 

 Woodward ; Lovell Eeeve, Esq. ; Nicholas Wood, Esq. ; G-. E. 

 Roberts, Esq. ; Dr. C. H. Pander ; Prof. G. Forchhammer, and Dr. 

 A. Oppel. 



The Ballot for the Council and Officers was taken, and the follow- 

 ing were duly elected for the ensuing year : — President : Warington 

 W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: Sir P. de M. G. 

 Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. ; Prof. T. H. Huxley, F.E.S. ; Sir 

 Charles Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.E.S. ; Prof. A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S. 

 Secretaries : P. Martin Duncan, M.B. ; John Evans, Esq., F.R.S. 

 Foreign Secretary: R. A. C. Godwin-Austen, Esq., F.R.S. Treasurer : 

 Joseph Prestwich, Esq., F.R.S. Council : H. W. Bristow, Esq., 

 F.R.S. ; P. Martin Duncan, M.B. ; Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, Bart., 

 M.P., F.R.S. ; Earl of Enniskillen, D.C.L., F.R.S. ; Robert Etheridge, 

 Esq., F.R.S.E. ; John Evans, Esq., F.R.S. ; R. A. C. Godwin-Austen, 

 Esq., F.R.S.; William J. Hamilton, Esq., F.R.S.; Prof. T. H. 

 Huxley, F.R.S. ; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.R.S. ; Prof. T. Rupert 

 Jones; M. Auguste Laugel ; Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S. ; 

 J. Carrick Moore, Esq.. M.A., F.R.S. ; Prof. John Morris ; Sir R. I. 

 Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S. ; Robert W. Mylne, Esq., F.R.S. ; 

 Joseph Prestwich, Esq., F.R.S. ; Prof. A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S. ; 

 Warington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. ; Capt. T. A. B. Spratt, 

 R.N., C.B., F.R.S. ; Lieut.-Col. R. Strachey, R.E., F.R.S. ; Rev. 

 Thomas Wiltshire, M.A., F.L.S. 



Edinbifkgh Geological Society. — I. 25th January, 1866 ; 

 R. A. F. A. Coyne, Esq., C.E., in the chair. 



1. Mr. John Young, of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, exhibited 

 a beautiful of Carboniferous Entomostraca from the limestone and 

 shales of the west of Scotland, and explained his mode of col- 

 lecting and mounting those minute organisms. In a paper which 

 he read on the subject, he stated that the Entomostraca, which 

 belong to a family of small bivalve crustaceans, are common in 

 certain beds from the bottom to the top of our Coal-measures. But 

 some of the finer ornamented species are only to be found in the 

 marine limestone shales. Certain oil shales in the Coal-measures 

 seem to be made up almost exclusively of the bivalved coverings 

 of these minute animals, and he (Mr. Young) often wondered 



