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and it affords me much gratification to be the medium of conveying to you the 

 appreciation of the CouncU and the accompanying fund. 



Mr. KuTLEY siiitably retm-ned thanks. 



In presenting to G. R. Vine, Esq., one moietj' of the balance of 

 the proceeds of the Lyell Donation Fund, the President addressed 

 him as follows : — 



A moiety of the balance of the proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund has been 

 awarded to you by the Couucil of tbe Geological Society. In making this award the 

 Council were actuated in part by the wish to express their sense of the value of your 

 research^'S upon the fossil Bryozoa of the Palaeozoic rocks, as evinced especially by 

 your published writings on the Diastoporidae, an exceedingly difficult group, and in 

 part by their desire to assist you in the further prosecution of your investigations. 

 I have much pleasure in handing to you this small testimony of the appreciation of 

 the Council. 



Mr. Vine, in reply, thanked the President for this token of recognition, on the 

 part of the Council, of his labours. 



The President then handed to Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., F.G.S., 

 for transmisson to Dr. Anton Fritscu, of Prague, the second moiety 

 of the Lyell Donation Fund, and said : — 



The Council has awarded a portion of the Lyell Geological Fund to Dr. Anton 

 Fritsch, Professor of Zoology in the University of Prague, in recognition of his 

 valuable contributions to palseontology. Dr. Fritsch is an accomplished zoologist, 

 who has enriched his studies of many groups of fossils, invertebrate and vertebrate, 

 with admirable knowledge of existing life. Durmg the last thirty years Dr. 

 Fritsch has published about one hundred and twenty memoirs, many of which relate 

 to palteontology and geology. Besides scattered papers on Eozoon, Callianassa, and 

 other subjects connected with the fossil fauna of Bohemia, Dr. Fritsch has 

 also published some standard works monographing the fossils of his native land. 

 These comprise the Cretaceous Cephalopods (1872), the Cretaceous Reptiles and Fish 

 (1878), and his great work on the Fauna of the Permian Rocks (still in progress), of 

 which two volumes, devoted to Amphibia, have been issued. These volumes are 

 excellent examples of descriptive work, illustrated worthily, and this award is 

 especially intended to mark the sympathy of the Council with Dr. Fritsch in his 

 endeavours to adequately make known the Permian fauna, and in the hope that the 

 fund may assist him in completing a work which has already taken high rank among 

 palseontological monographs. 



Prof. Seeley felt siu-e that Dr. Fritsch would duly appreciate the honour of the 

 award made him by the Council. 



The President then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, which was 

 devoted to the analysis and distribution of the British Palseozoic fossils, and especially 

 as to their distribution in the successive formations, elucidated by elaborate tables. 

 The Address was prefaced by obituary notices of Fellows and Foreign Members of 

 the Society deceased during the past year, including Dr. J. J. Bigsby, Mr. Searles 

 V. Wood, Prof. Ansted, Dr. C. Nyst, M. Bosquet, and others. 



The ballot for the Council and Officers was taken^ and the following were duly 

 elected for the ensuing year : — President: R.Etheridge,Esq.,F.R.S. ; L.andE. Vice- 

 Presidents : John Evans, D ex., LL.D.,F.R.S. ; J. W. Hulke, Esq., F.R.S. ; 

 Prof. J. Morris, M.A. ; and H. C. Sorby, LL.D., F.R.S. Secretaries: Prof. 

 T. G. Bonney, M.A., F.R.S.; Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S. Foreign Secretary: 

 Warington "W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Treasurer : J. Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D., 

 F.R.S. Council : H. Bauerman, Esq. ; Rev. J. F. Blake, M.A. ; Prof. T. G. 

 Bonney, M.A., F.R.S.; W. Carruthers, Esq., F.R.S.: Prof. P. M. Duncan, M.B., 

 F.R.S. ; Sir P. de M. Grey-Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. ; R. Etheridge, Esq., 

 F.R.S.; John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. ; Lieut.-Col. K. H. Godwin- Austen, 

 F.R.S. ; J. Clarke Hawkshaw, Esq., M.A. ; Rev. Edwin Hill, M.A. ; W. H. 

 Hudlestone, Esq., M.A.; J. W, Hulke, Esq., F.R.S. ; J. Gwjti Jeffreys, LL.D., 

 F.R.S. ; Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S. ; Prof. N. S. Maskelyne, M.A., M.P., F.R.S. ; 

 J. Morris, Esq., M.A. ; J. A. Phillips, Esq. ; F. W. RucUer, Esq.; Prof. H. G. 

 Seeley, F.R.S. ; Warington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. ; H. C. Sorby, LL.D., 

 F.R.S.; H. Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S. 



