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Society shall constitute the first and principal portion of each num- 

 ber; the journal shall appear quarterly, on the 1st of February, 

 1st of May, 1st of August, and 1 st of November ; the cost of the 

 work is to be defrayed by the publishers, who take upon themselves 

 the risk and profits ; the option is reserved to the Fellows of re- 

 ceiving either the Proceedings gratuitously or the entire journal at 

 the trade price. 



The Council have also reserved to the Society the right of pub- 

 lishing in the quarto form, any papers, abstracts or illustrations, 

 which may be considered to require such a form of publication. 



The considerable stock in hand of the last five volumes of the 

 Transactions, together with the wish expressed by several Members 

 of the Society to purchase separate memoirs, has induced the Coun- 

 cil, by way of trial, to assign ten copies of these volumes for the pur- 

 pose of being broken up and the papers sold separately. But they 

 will not proceed further in this measure until the financial result of 

 the experiment has been ascertained. A catalogue of the separate 

 papers has been printed and published. 



It has hitherto been the practice of the Society to present copies 

 of its Transactions to the Board of Admiralty, the Boards of Ord- 

 nance in England and Ireland, the East India Company, &c. ; and 

 on the same principle the Council have recently directed that a 

 complete set of the Second Series of the Transactions should be pre- 

 sented to the Museum of Economic Geology : and the Council have 

 much pleasure in announcing, that Her Majesty's Government have 

 directed that copies of all reports and proceedings from the Museum 

 of Economic Geology, of all government publications connected with 

 geology, and of all the geological maps published by the Ordnance 

 office, should be furnished to this Society. 



The Council have further to announce, that they have resolved 

 that the Wollaston Medal be awarded to John Phillips, Esq., F.R.S., 

 Professor of Geology at the University of Dublin, for the services he 

 has rendered to Geology by his various published works ; and that 

 the sum of £21 Is. Qd., the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston 

 fund, be given to Mr. Andrew Geddes Bain, for his extensive explo- 

 rations in South Africa, and particularly for his original discovery 

 in that country of the remains of bidental and other reptiles. 



They have also resolved, that at the ensuing and future presenta- 

 tion of the Wollaston Medal, the metal to be employed should be 

 Palladium, the discovery of which was due to the sagacity of the 

 distinguished founder of the fund; and that the Medal should 

 henceforth be called the " Wollaston Palladium Medal." 



Report of the Museum Committee for 1845. 



The additions made to the British collection during the past year 

 have been few : they consist of the following specimens, viz. — 



Tertiary, — About twenty species of freshwater shells from the 

 newer Pliocene of Claxton, by John Brown, Esq., F.G.S. 



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