Reports and Proceedings. 185 



volumes. As in the preceding years, the authors give a brief but 

 methodical analysis of the numerous geological works and papers 

 which were published during the years 1870-71. Among these 

 papers many appear in foreign , publications or as separate pamph- 

 lets, and might be overlooked, so that their arrangement in these 

 annual reports is of great value to the geologist and others interested 

 in the science. Besides notices of printed papers, the Bewwe de, 

 Geologie contains private communications from geologists and 

 engineers, as well as unpublished analyses of rocks, which have 

 been undertaken in private laboratories, or in those of the French 

 School of Mines, and other establishments ; and also notices of the 

 works of Italian geologists furnished by MM. A. Caillaux and de 

 Mortillet. The subjects are arranged under the following heads :■ 

 Physiographical, Lithological, Historical, Geographical, and Dyna- 

 mical G-eology. Under these five divisions more than 180 papers 

 are noticed, which, together with a list of 410 authors, shows the 

 amount of labour bestowed by the editors upon this work. M. Delesse 

 has specially charged himself with the lithological part, metamor- 

 phism, agricultural geology, and modern phenomena; while M. de 

 Lapparent has undertaken the historical geology and the mountain 

 systems, the other portions being a joint production. — J. M. 



GrEOLOGIOAL SoCIETY OF LoNDON. AnNUAL GeNERAL MeETING. 



February 20th, 1874.— His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T., FJi.S., 

 President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the Eeports of the 

 Council, and of the Library and Museum Committee. The general 

 condition of the Society was said to be very satisfactory ; the Society 

 was said to be prosperous, and the number of Fellows to have con- 

 siderably increased. 



In handing the Wollaston Gold Medal to the Foreign Secretary, 

 W. W. Smyth, Esq., for transmission to Prof. Heer, of Zurich, the 

 President referred to the fact that last year the Council had awarded 

 the Balance of the proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund to 

 Prof. Heer, and remarked that it gave him much pleasure that the 

 Wollaston Medal, the highest honour which the Society had it in 

 its power to confer, should be so worthily bestowed. He alluded 

 briefly to the labours of Prof. Heer in the difficult departments of 

 Fossil Botany and Entomology, and to the admirable works in which 

 he had given to the world the results of his indefatigable researches. 



Mr. W. W. Smyth, in reply, said : 



My Lord President, — It is with a great pleasure that I undertake 

 the transmission to Prof. Heer of this new testimony of the im- 

 portance attached by this Society to his long-continued labours. I 

 have received from our valued Foreign Member a letter stating that 

 my announcement of the award had found him extended on the bed 

 of sickness, and begging me to assure the Society that, but for this 

 misfortune, nothing would have given him greater pleasure than to 



