PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
Vou. Ill. Parr II. 1841. No. 81. 
Address delivered on the Anniversary, February 19th, by the 
Rev. Professor Buckland, D.D,, P.G.S. 
GENTLEMEN, : 4 
Durine the second year in which I have had the honour to occupy 
this Chair, the state of our Society has been in every respect satis- 
factory and progressive. On comparing our list of Members at the 
beginning of 1840 with that of the same period in 1841, we find that, 
notwithstanding the large amount of losses occasioned by death, the 
last year has produced an increase of thirteen Members, making 
our present List of Fellows 78], and our total number 862, including 
thirty-two Honorary Members, forty-six Foreign Members, and three 
-Personages of Royal blood. Four distinguished promoters of Geo- 
logical knowledge have been proposed for election into our list of 
fifty Foreign Members: viz. 
Prof. Dumont, of Liege, to whom we gave our Wollaston Medal 
last year for his Discoveries in Belgium. 
M. Pusch, distinguished for his Geological and Palzontological 
researches in Poland. 
M. Deshayes, long celebrated for his publications in Mineral 
Conchology. 
Prof. Agassiz, whose various and extensive works in Natural” 
History, and more especially his grand work on Fossil Fishes, have 
permanently registered his name among the great discoverers and 
most philosophic Naturalists of our time. 
Our Wollaston Medal has been awarded to one of our Foreign 
Members, M. Adolphe Brongniart, for his valuable discoveries and 
publications in Fossil Botany. 
Our Funds:have been replenished by the sale of our Transactions, 
and our Household Establishment is in all respects satisfactory. 
The Museum has been enriched by many donations, and great. 
progress made in its arrangement by Mr. Lonsdale, assisted 
by Mr. Woodward. In the British and Irish Series, 112 drawers 
have been nearly filled with new specimens, including 20 drawers 
full of a fine series of rock specimens from the subdivisions of the 
Lias and Oolite formations collected and presented by Mr. Lonsdale, 
27 drawers full of specimens of Rocks and Fossils explanatory of 
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