180 Reports and Proceedings — 



Geological Society of London. 



I. — Annual General Meeting. — February 17th, 1882. — Robert 

 Etheridge, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretaries read the Reports of the Council and of the Library 

 and Museum Committee for the year 1881. The Council expressed 

 their regret that the hope of renewed prosperity which they had 

 held out in their last Annual Report had hai'dly been fulfilled, the 

 financial position of the Society being, for certain reasons, a little 

 worse than at the beginning of the year. At the same time the 

 number of Fellows was stated to be steadily increasing ; and as this 

 increase consists mainly of Contributing Fellows, the future pros- 

 perity of the Society was regarded as insured. The Council also 

 expressed regret that the Catalogue of the Library had not met with 

 the demand that they expected. The Council's Report further an- 

 nounced the awards of the various Medals and of the proceeds of the 

 Donation Funds in the gift of the Society. 



In presenting the Wollaston Gold Medal to Mr. H. Bauerman, 

 F.G.S., for transmission to Dr. Franz Ritter von Hauer, F.M.G.S., 

 Director of the Austrian Geological Survey, the President addressed 

 him as follows : — 



Mr. Bauerman, — In handing to you the "Wollaston Medal for transmission to 

 Franz von Hauer, I trust you will inform him that the Council of the Geological 

 Society award this, their highest prize, in recognition of his valuable labours in connexion 

 with the Geology of Austro-Hungary, and especially for his long-continued services 

 in the investigation of extensive areas, and his numerous descriptive memoirs pro- 

 duced during the preparation of the Great Map of the Austrian Empire. Von 

 Hauer has contributed no less than 100 papers and memoirs to geological literature, 

 25 of which are on palseontological subjects ; he has paid particular attention to the 

 fauna of the HaUstadt and Raibl beds, and to the Cephalopoda of the Eastern, or 

 Austrian Alps. His descriptive pamphlets relating to the General Map of Austria 

 are models of concise description as summarizing the results of the work of the 

 Imperial Geological Survey. These results have also formed the basis of a general 

 manual of Austrian Geology, which is the best guide we have to some of the most 

 interesting parts of Central and Eastern Europe. Von Hauer has been attached to 

 the Austrian Survey ever since its commencement in 1849 ; he succeeded Haidinger 

 as Director in 1866. His great work is_/'Die Geologic und ihre Anwendung a uf 

 die Kenntnissder Bodenbeschafienheit der Osterr.-ungar. Monarchic, " published in 

 1875. I have said enough, Sir, to enable you to inform Dr. Franz Eitter von Hauer 

 of the high appreciation the Council have of his merits, and the satisfaction they 

 have in recognizing them by awarding to him the Wollaston Medal. 



Mr. Bauerman, in reply, said that he regretted that the compulsory absence of 

 the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Warington W. Smyth, prevented his receiving this 

 Medal from the hands of the President. He had much pleasure, however, in imder- 

 taking the office of transmitting to Dr. Franz von Hauer this testimony of the 

 appreciation of his valuable labours on the part of the Geological Society. He 

 called attention especially to the Geological Survey Map of Austria, the sheets of 

 which were on the table, and which had been produced by the labours of the 

 Survey under the direction of Franz von Hauer. Notwithstanding the difficulty of 

 much of the country represented and the small scale of the Map, the details were 

 admirably worked out, and the Map itself was one of the most beautiful ever 

 produced. 



The President then presented the Murchison Medal to Professor 



