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express my gratitude to you, Sir, for the kind manner in which you have referred 
to my labours. I¢ is just 20 years since I commenced my search for fossils among the 
old rocks at St. David’s, and the enthusiasm with which every new find was welcomed 
by the late eminent paleontologist, Mr. Salter, to whom they were first sent, was 
in itself a sufficient stimulus for any exertions required. I had the honour also from 
time to time to conduct many eminent geologists over the ground explored, and 
received from them much encouragement. Among these, however, no one was more 
anxious to show enthusiastic sympathy than the amiable Dr. Bigsby, the founder of 
this Medal, who visited St. David’s in the summer of 1866. His interest in the 
sections was extreme, due doubtless in part to the fact that a few years before he had 
communicated a paper to this Society on the relation between the Cambrian and 
Huronian rocks, and that here at St. David’s I was able to show him some proof in 
support of the view which he maintained, that the Huronian rocks were older than 
any which could be classed as Cambrian in America. It is therefore, Sir, peculiarly 
pleasing to me that I should now be thought worthy of the great honour of receiving 
the Bigsby Medal; and I can only hope that I may be able, in the words of the 
founder, to do further work, and to continue with renewed vigour those researches 
which have brought me this honour, and what I value almost equally, namely, the 
friendship of so many eminent Fellows of the Geological Society. 
The Presipent then read his Anniversary Address, in which he passed in review 
the work done by the Geological Society during the past year, and discussed at con- 
siderable length a question arising out of this review, namely, the structural characters 
presented by the sternal framework and the limbs of Enaliosaurians, and the classifica- 
tional value which they possess. He also referred to the discoveries which have been 
lately made in America of numerous remains of Pterosaurians. often of gigantic size ; 
adverted to the proceedings of the International Geological Congress, held in 1881, 
at Bologna, and noticed, as one gratifying result of the latter, the establishment of an 
Italian Geological Society. 
The ballot for the Council and Officers was taken, and the following were duly 
elected for the ensuing year: President: J. W. Hulke, Esq., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents : 
Prof. P. M. Duncan, M.B., F.R.S.; R. Etheridge, Esq., F.R.S.; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 
LE:D.; FR: 3 Prof: J.’ Prestwich, MA, F.RiS: “Secretaries 2 rome 
Bonney, M.A., F.R.S.; Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S. Foreign Secretary : Warington 
W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Zreasurer: Prof. T. Wiltshire, M.A., F.L.S.; 
Council : H. Bauerman, Esq.; W. T. Blanford, Esq., F.R.S.; Prof. T. G. Bonney, 
M.A., F.R.S.; W. Carruthers, Esq., F.R.S.; Prof. P. M. Duncan, M.B., F.R.S.; 
R. Etheridge, Esq., F.R.S.; John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.; A. Geikie, 
LL.D., F.R.S.; Rev. Edwin Hill, M.A.; G. J. Hinde, Ph.D.; Prof. T. M‘Kenny 
Hughes, M.A.; J. W. Hulke, Esq., F.R.S.; J. Gwyn Jeffreys; LL.D., F.R.S.; 
Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S.; Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S.; 8. R. Pattison, Esq. ; 
J. A. Phillips, Esq., F.R.S.; Prof. J. Prestwich, M.A., F.R.S.; F. W. Rudler, 
Esq. ; Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S.; Warington W. Smyth, Esqg., M.A., F.R.S.; 
W. Topley, Esq.; Prof. T. Wiltshire, M.A., F.L.S. 
IJ.—Orpinary Mrerine.—February 21, 1883.—J. W. Hulke, Hsq., 
F.R.S., President, in the Chair.—The following communications 
were read :— 
1. “On the Relation of the so-called ‘ Northampton Sand’ of North 
Oxfordshire to the Clypeus-Grit.” By Edwin A. Walford, F.G.S. 
The objects of the paper were said to be twofold :—in the first 
place to show the existence of some hitherto unrecognized beds of 
the Inferior Oolite in North Oxfordshire, and then to endeavour to 
define their position by comparison with one of the uppermost of the 
Cotteswold subdivisions, the Clypeus-grit. The area under discussion 
was said to be for the most part embraced in Quarter-sheet 45 N.W. 
of the Geological Survey, in the N.E. corner of which is situate the 
town of Banbury, whilst to the extreme S.W. lies Chipping Norton. 
The author first called attention to some remnants of a series of 
Oolitic Limstones at Coombe Hill, near Deddington, which he con- 
