180 Reports and Proceedings — 



these a layer of cortical tissue from between the core and the impression has evidently 

 been removed by decay, after the cortical cylinder had been filled with sediment and 

 the impression of the outer surface of the bark had been imparted to the surrounding 

 matrix. An example in the Collection shows the same conditions — a removable 

 Halonia core from a Lepidophloios impression. 



The plant figured as Knorria Sellonii, by Lindley and Hutton (Fossil Flora, vol. 

 ii. pi xcvii.), appears to be a compressed specimen of Lepidophloios. I have 

 examiued this type in the " Hutton Collection," of which their plate does not give a 

 very correct idea. 



I am unable to discover from what evidence Renault has restored his Lepidophloios, 

 as represented in his Cours d. Botan. Foss. 1882, pi. xi. fig. 1. It appears to 

 possess the large scars of one genus and the leaf-scars of another. 



Horizon. — Coal Measures. 



Localities. — British. Staffordshire : Ipstones. 



Foreign. Bohemia : Kadnitz. Silesia : Waldenburg. 



Space precludes our giving a fuller notice of this Catalogue. An 

 index and list of works quoted completes the book. 



Mr. Kidston has visited numerous localities in search of species, 

 and has added by his exertions nearly 250 specimens to the 

 collection ; it is hoped that other gaps which at present exist will 

 ere long be filled by further donations. 



SZEZF-OIRTS J^JSTJD IFIR-OCIEIEIDIIKra-S- 



Geological Society of London. 



I. — Annual General Meeting, February 19, 1886. — Prof. T. G. 

 Bonney, D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the Eeports of the Council and of the Library 

 and Museum Committee for the year 1885. In the former the 

 Council stated that they had the pleasure of congratulating the 

 Society upon an improvement in the state of its affairs, both from 

 a financial point of view and on account of an increase in the 

 number of Fellows. The number of Fellows elected during the year 

 was 54, and the total accession amounted to 51 ; while the losses by 

 death, resignation, etc., amounted to 46, making an increase of five in 

 the number of Fellows. The number of contributing Fellows was 

 increased by 15. The Balance-sheet showed an excess of Income 

 over Expenditure during the year of £347 18s. 2d. The Council's 

 Report further announced the awards of the various Medals and of 

 the Proceeds of the Donation Funds in the gift of the Society. 



In handing the Wollaston Gold Medal to Mr. Warington W. Smyth, 

 F.R.S., for transmission to Prof. A. L. 0. Des Cloizeaux, the President 

 addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Warington Smyth, — In the absence, which we much regret, of Prof. Des 

 Cloizeaux, I must request you to transmit to him this Medal. 



Geology is the child of two parents, — Mineralogy and Biology. If we look to the 

 latter to bid the dry bones and buried relics of organisms once more live, we appeal 

 to the former to disclose the nature and constitution of the earth's framework whereon 

 they flourished. It is therefore only just that our Society shovdd seek opportunities of 

 acknowledging the aid which we receive from mineralogists ; and it would be clifRcirlt 

 to find one on whom this Wollaston Medal could be more fitly conferred than on 

 Prof. Des Cloizeaux. To enumerate the papers which he has written would be a 

 formidable task; they numbered 141, so long as fourteen years ago; what, then, 



