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to Dr. J. Croll, a portion of the proceeds of the Barlow- Jameson Fimd, and said: — 

 Professor Bonney, — The Council, in recognition of the value of Dr. James CroU's 

 researches into the " Later Physical History of the Earth," and to aid him in further 

 researches of a like kind, has awarded to him the sum of £20 from the proceeds of 

 the Barlow-Jameson Fund. Mr. CroU's work on " Climate and 'I'ime in their 

 Geological Eelations," and his numerous separate papers on various cognate subjects, 

 including the " Eccentricity of the Earth's Orbit," ■' Date of the Glacial Period," 

 the " Influence of the Gulf Stream," the " Motion of Glaciers," " Ocean Currents," 

 and the " Transport of Boulders," by their suggestiveness have deservedly attracted 

 much attention. In forwarding to Dr. Croll this award, the Council desires you to 

 express the hope that it may assist him in continuing these lines of research. 



Professor Bonney, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — I have been charged by Dr. 

 J. Croll to express to the Society his regret that his weak health and the great distance 

 at which he resides prevent him from being present in person to-day to receive this 

 award. He desires me to express his deep sense of the honour which is done to him 

 in this renewed mark of the appreciation of his work, and he gives us the cheering 

 news that though still at times suffering, he is now able to do a little work, a proof 

 of which, in a paper on Mr. "Wallace's remarks on the theory of Climate, reached me 

 yesterday. Deeply though I regret Dr. CroU's absence, I feel honoured in represent- 

 ing a man who has done such original suggestive and valuable work. 



In handing to Professor Seeley, F.R.S., a second portion of the proceeds of the 

 Barlow-Jameson Fund for transmission to Prof. Leo Lesquereux, F.C.G.S., the 

 President spoke as follows : — Professor Seeley, — The Council has awarded to Professor 

 Leo Lesquereux the sum of £20 from the proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund, in 

 recognition of the value of his researches into the Palseobotany of North America, 

 and to aid him in farther investigations of a similar kind. Professor Lesquereux's 

 " Contributions to the Fossil Cretaceous and Tertiary Flora of the Western Terri- 

 tories," published in the " Eeports of the United States Geological Survey," are 

 works which, for their matter, typography and illustrations, leave nothing to desire. 

 In transmitting this award to Professor Lesquereux, you will convey to him the hopes 

 of the Council that it may assist him in prosecuting further investigations in the 

 difficult branch of research in which he has already accomplished so much. 



Professor Seeley in reply, said: — Mr. President, — I feel much honoured in 

 receiving this award on behalf of Professor Lesquereux. His valuable researches 

 not only contribute systematic descriptions of the American Secondary and Tertiary 

 floras, but furnish almost the only data for comparing those iloras with the plant life 

 from similar strata on this side of the Atlantic. All Professor Lesquereux's work 

 is marked by such exactness and care, that I am glad we are thus able to honour 

 it, and offer assistance in its progress. 



The President then read his Anniversary Address, in which, after giving 

 obituary notices of some of the Members lost by the Society in 1883, he passed in 

 review the principal work done by the Society since the last Anniversary Meeting, 

 and finally referred more in detail to some important results obtained elsewhere in 

 connexion with the comparative osteology of the Vertebrata, dwelling particularly 

 upon the question of the existence in the lower jaw of an unpaired bone occupying, 

 or anterior to, the symphysis —the "os pre-symphysien " of M. Dollo, the "mento- 

 Meckelian" of Cope, the "inferior intermaxillary element" of W. K. Parker,— 

 and upon certain cranial and pelvic characters of the Dinosauria. 



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

 elected for the ensuing yeax •.—President : Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, F.R.S. 

 Vice-Presidents : W. Carruthers, Esq., F.E.S. ; John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D., 

 F.R.S.; J. A. Phillips, Esq., F.R.S. ; Prof. J. Prestwich, M.A., F.R.S. 

 Secretaries: W. T. Blanford, Esq., F.R.S.; Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S. Foreign 

 Secretar^J : Warington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Treasurer: Professor T. 

 Wiltshire, M.A., F.L.S. Council: H. Bauerman, Esq.; W. T. Blanford, Esq., 

 F.E.S. ; Prof. T. G. Bonnev, D.Sc, F.R.S. ; W. Carruthers, Esq., F.R.S. ; John 

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

 Hicks, M.D. ; Rev. Edwin Hill, M.A. ; G. J. Hinde, Ph.D. ; J. Hopkinson, Esq.; 

 Prof. T. M'Kenny Hughes, M.A. ; J. W. Hulke, Esq., F.E.S. ; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 

 LL.D., F.R.S. ; Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. ; Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S. ; J. 

 A. Phillips, Esq., F.R.S. ; Prof. J. Prestwich, M.A., F.R.S. ; F. W. Rudler, Esq.; 

 Warington W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.; J. J. H. Teall, Esq., M.A. ; W. 

 Topley, Esq. ; Prof. T. Wiltshii'e, M.A., F.L.S. ; Henry Woodward, LL.D., F.E.S. 



