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Murchison, Bart., K.C.B,, etc. Sir Koderick Murchison, in thanking 

 the Council on behalf of Mr. Baily, remarked upon the conformity 

 of this particular award to the design of the late Dr. WoUaston in 

 establishing the Donation-fund. 



The President then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, 

 in which he discussed some of the most important contributions 

 to Lithology and Mineralogy during the past few years, prefacing it 

 with biographical notices of lately deceased Fellows, Foreign Mem- 

 bers, and Foreign Correspondents, among the most distinguished of 

 which may be mentioned William Hopkins, Esq. ; the Eev. Dr. 

 Whewell ; P. N. Johnson, Esq. ; G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Esq. ; 

 James Smith, Esq., of Jordan Hill ; Charles Maclaren, Esq. ; Parkin 

 Jeffcock, Esq. ; Prof. H. D. Eogers ; Prof. Nils de Nordenskiold ; 

 Dr. A. Oppel, Seiior Casiano di Prado ; Dr. C. T. Gaudin; M. 

 Deslongchamps. 



The Ballot for the Council and Officers was taken, and the fol- 

 lowing were duly elected for the ensuing year : — President : Wa- 

 rington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.E.S. Vice-Presidents : Sir P. de 

 M. a. Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.E.S. ; Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., 

 D.C.L., F.E.S. ; J. Carrick Moore, Esq., M.A., F.E.S. ; Sir E. I. 

 Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., F.E.S. Secretaries : P. Martin Duncan, 

 M.B. ; John Evans, Esq., F.E.S. Foreign Secretary: E. A. C. 

 Godwin- Austen, Esq., F.E.S. Treasurer: Joseph Prestwich, Esq., 

 F.E.S. Council : Prof. D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.E.S. ; H. W. 

 Bristow, Esq., F.E.S. ; P. Martin Duncan, M.B. ; Sir P. de M. G. 

 Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.E.S. ; Earl of Enniskillen, D.C.L., F.E.S. ; 

 Eobert Etheridge, Esq., F.E.S.E. ; John Evans, Esq., F.E.S., 

 F.S.A. ; David Forbes, Esq., F.E.S. ; E. A. C. Godwin-Austen, Esq., 

 F.E.S. ; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.E.S. ; Prof. T. Eupert Jones ; 

 Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.E.S. ; Edward Meryon, M.D. ; 

 John Carrick Moore, Esq., M.A., F.E.S.; Sir E. I. Murchison, 

 Bart., K.C.B., F.E.S. ; Eobert W. Mylne, Esq., F.E.S. ; Joseph 

 Prestwich, Esq., F.E.S. ; Prof. A. C. Eamsay, LL.D., F.E.S. ; 

 Warington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.E.S. ; Captain T. A. B. Spratt, 

 E.N., C.B., F.E.S. ; Alfred Tylor, Esq., F.E.S. ; Eev. Thomas Wilt- 

 shire, M.A., F.E.A.S. ; Henry Woodward, Esq., F.Z.S. 



GEOLoaicAx Society of Glasgow. — The monthly meeting of this 

 Society was held on the 17th January, in Anderson's University. — 

 the Eev. H. W. Crosskey, Vice-President, in the chair. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Notes on a Chilognathous Myriapod, and some Fossil Crustacea, 

 from the Coal-measures of the West of Scotland. By Henry Wood- 

 ward, Esq., F.G.S., F.Z.S. of the British Museum. (Communicated 

 by the Secretary.) The author noticed the discovery by Dr. Dawson, 

 of Montreal, in 1852, in the Joggins Coal-field, Nova Scotia, of a 

 Chilognathous Myriapod, Xylobius Sigillarice, found in the interior of 

 the stump of an erect fossil tree, which also contained the remains 

 of a reptile, and a land-snail; ^and then proceeded to describe a 

 Bimilar insect, discovered about two years since by the late Mr. 



