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Society) that we should cut the group off from the Trias — as it was 

 Palseozoic. . . . Murchison objected 1 (he was the only one that stood 

 out) and he continued his objections, arguing that Reptiles were 

 secondary groups." 



Mr. Goodchild also contributes the second part of " Contributions 

 towards a list of the Minerals occurring in Cumberland and West- 

 morland." 



The Local Scientific Notes and Memoranda form a useful feature in 

 this volume, and the Association may be congratulated on the careful 

 way in which the work has been edited. H. B. W. 



jEi:Bi'jE'o:Ri:s j^istjd :E'I^OG:BE^DH^^C3-s. 



Geological Society op Loistdon. 

 I. — Annual General Meetins. — February 15th, 1884. — J. W. 

 Hulke, Esq., F.E.S,, President, in the Chair. 



The Secretaries read the Eeports of the Council and of the Library and Museum 

 Committee for the year 1883. 



In presenting the Wollaston Gold Medal to Prof. A. Gaudi-y, F.M.G.S., thei 

 President addressed him as follows: — Prof. A. Gaudry, — The Council of the 

 Geological Society has awarded you the Wollaston Medal in recognition of the value 

 of your palseontological researches and the important scientific generalizations you 

 have deduced from long and laborious observations. The numerous papers on topo- 

 graphical geology and on paleontology you have contributed during the past 30 years, 

 youi- important ' ' Eecherches Scientifiq[ues en Orient entreprises par les ordres du 

 Gouvernement pendant les aunees 1853-1854," your " Animaux fossiles et geologic 

 de I'Attique," and, lastly, your work "Les Enchainements du monde animal dans les 

 temps geologiques," have made your name so familiar, wherever our branch of 

 natural science is cultivated, that in receiving you, we feel we are not receiving a 

 stranger, but a scientific brother, and one who, by his labours and singleness of aim, 

 has achieved a position as a palaeontologist such as few can hope to attain. Person- 

 ally, it affords me great and sincere pleasure that it has fallen to my lot to hand you 

 this Medal, which, by the consent of all, has never been more worthily bestowed. 



Prof. Gaudry, in reply, said : — Mr. President,— I regret much that 1 speak 

 English too imperfectly to express well the sentiments which I feel in my heart. I 

 can only say that my pleasure in receiving the Wollaston Medal is in proportion to 

 my admiration for the labours of the illusti'ious Geological Society of London and to 

 my afl'ection for many of its Fellows. I beg the Geological Society and its dis- 

 tinguished President to accept my best thanks. 



The PiiESiDENT then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Donation Fund to Mr. E. TuUey Newton, F.G.S., and addressed him as follows : — 

 Mr. Newton,— The Council has voted you the Balance of the proceeds of the 

 " Wollaston Donation Fund," in recognition of the value of your researches amongst 

 the Pleistocene Mammalia of Great Britain, and to assist you in the prosecution of 

 further investigations. Your Memoirs published by the Geological Survey of England 

 and Wales " On the Vertebrataof the Forest-bed series of Norfolk and Suffolk" and 

 on " The Chimseroid Fishes of the Cretaceous Eoeks," and your papers published in 

 our Journal, are considered by the Council to evince great merit ; they regard them as 

 a bright earnest of future work which they hope may be promoted by this award. 



Mr. Newton, in reply, said:— Mr. President,— Most highly do I appreciate the 

 honour which the Council of the Geological Society have conferred upon me to-day 

 by awarding me the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund, — an honour wholly unexpected, 

 and valued the more because of the kind manner in which you. Sir, have been pleased 

 to speak of my work among the fossil vertebrata, which it has been a pleasure and, 

 in part, my duty, to undertake. Such work is always a source of pleasure and profit 

 in itself ; but its recognition by those who are most capable of judging of its value is 

 certainly the greatest satisfaction and highest reward one can receive. In accepting 



