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the value of the funded property of the Society at the present price 
of Consols is 2086/., or within 12167. of the sum received for con- 
tributions. 
The Council have also to state to the Society, that the third part 
of Volume V. has been published since the last Anniversary, and that 
the first part of Volume VI. is in the press. The Council having con- 
sidered the adoption of a fuller page advisable, the breadth will be 
increased for the future without any additional expense. The Coun- 
cil have also determined that with each Part a list of donations shall 
be printed, on an improved plan, whereby the bulk of the last part 
of a volume will be diminished, and the expense more equably. di- 
vided to the purchasers of single parts. 
In consequence of the great change which has taken place in the 
postage, the Council have determined that the Proceedings shall for 
the future be sent to the Non-resident as well as Resident Fellows ; 
but have ordered that for this purpose they shall be printed upon 
thinner paper, so as to reduce the weight of each number to within 
a single postage. 
The Council have also to state to the Society, that in consequence 
of numerous expressions of regret at the early termination of the 
Meetings in June, they have considered it desirable to call. a Special 
General Meeting to consider the propriety of extending the present 
and future Sessions to a Second Evening of Meeting in June. 
The Council have resolved that the Wollaston Gold Medal be 
awarded to M. Adolphe Brongniart for his work on Fossil Botany. 
Report of the Museum Committee. 
The Committee appointed to examine the Society’s Museum haye 
to report that it-has been greatly enriched during the year by new 
donations, and that considerable progress has been made in its ar- 
rangement. Without: specifying a considerable number of miscel- 
laneous fossils worked into different parts of the collection, it may 
he stated that the number of newly-arranged drawers in the British 
and Irish series amounts to no less than 112, and by far the greater 
part of these are filled with newly-acquired specimens. 
Among the principal additions, the Committee may call attention 
to a fine series of rock specimens from the various subdivisions of 
the lias. and oolitic formations, collected and presented by Mr. 
Lonsdale. ‘They occupy 20 drawers, and are intended to illustrate 
the various: changes in lithological character which each of the dif- 
ferent members of the oolitic series undergo in their course’ from 
Oxfordshire to the Humber. © 
Another important accession consists of specimens of rocks and 
fossils explanatory of the mineral and paleontological characters of 
the Devonian system, from Devonshire and the neighbouring coun- 
ties, filling 27 drawers. The trap rocks also of Cornwall and Deyon. 
have been newly arranged, and occupy 18 drawers. Ten drawers 
have been added to the carboniferous or mountain-limestone series 
of England, including a large suite of specimens from the Isle of 
