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The number of Fellows elected during the year was 42 ; of these 

 33 qualified before the end of 1893, making, with 6 previously 

 elected Fellows, a total accession of 39 in the course of the twelve- 

 month. During the same period the losses by death, resignation, 

 and removal amounted to 85, the actual decrease in the number of 

 Contributing Fellows being 24. The total number of Fellows, 

 Foreign Members, and Foreign Correspondents at the close of 1893 

 was 1353, as compared with 1400 on December 31st, 1892, and 1418 

 on December 31st, 1891. 



The Balance-sheet for the year 1893 showed receipts to the amount 

 of £2750 18s. \0d. and an expenditure of £2204 17s. 6d. Moreover, 

 the sum of £502 15s. 3(?. was expended in the Purchase of Stock, 

 and the balance in favour of the Society on December 31st, 1893, 

 amounted to £371 5s. \ld. The invested Funds of the Society have 

 now reached the sum of £10,729 lis., and the Council state that they 

 feel the time has now arrived when the question of safeguarding by 

 investment the interests of Compounders may be re-opened. 



The Report of the Council further referred to the completion of 

 vol. xlix. of the Quarterly Journal, and in conclusion announced the 

 awards of various Medals and proceeds of Donation. Funds in the 

 gift of the Society. 



The Report of the Library and Museum Committee enumerated 

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

 announced the completion of several sets of serials formerly 

 imperfect, and referred especially to the large accession of British 

 Geological Survey maps and memoirs. The Report further recorded 

 the continuation of the work of registering the type and other 

 specimens in the Museum by Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, F.G.S. 



In handing the Wollaston Medal (awarded to Geheimrath Professor 

 Karl Alfred von Zittel, For.Memb.G.S.) to Dr. Woodward, F.R.S., 

 for transmission to the recipient, the President addressed him as 

 follows : — Dr. Woodward, — 



The Council of the Geological Society have this year awarded the "Wollaston 

 Medal to Geheimrath Dr. Karl Alfred von Zittel, Professor of Geology and Palaeon- 

 tology in the University of Munich, in recognition of the important services which 

 he has rendered to palaeontological science during a long period of time. Without 

 alluding in detail to his early work on Austrian geology, much of which was 

 published at Vienna, I wish to point out that, as Oppel's successor at Munich, he 

 has continued to advance our knowledge of the Mesozoic fauna of Central Europe, 

 and more especially of the interesting passage-beds betwixt the Jurassic and the 

 Cretaceous ; whilst the memoirs which he has published on these subjects derive 

 additional value from their excellent illustrations. 



Twenty years have now elapsed since K. A. von Kittel joined the expedition of 

 Gerhard Rohlfs to the Lybian Desert, and his contributions to the geology of that 

 region are probably the most important that have as yet appeared in relation to 

 Etfypt and the adjacent countries. It was on his return from this expedition that 

 he commenced his mngntmi opus, ' The Handbook of Palaeontology,' the first part of 

 which was published in 1876 and the last part, relating to the Mammalia, in 1893, 

 thus occupying an interval of 17 years' continuous labour. If proof were needed of 

 the thoroughness of his work, we obtain it in his treatment of the fossil sponges, 

 which he found in so chaotic a state that he applied himself to working out their 

 relations independently, and, having discovered the key in the microscopic structure 

 of their skeletons, was thus enabled to establish a system of classification which has 

 been found equally applicable to recent forms. 



