Geological Society of London. 183 



in our small portion of the globe without a comparison of our 

 recent fauna with those (necessarily incomplete because only partly 

 accessible) which you have enumerated in your most useful lists. 

 This comparison shows : — 



^fl I I I -^ I I I Total. 



PhNW O g fi< « pq g PM 



Number of Species in ' 



the existing fauna and } 616 278 567 263 15 354 76 1820 3989 



flora of Great Britain. 

 Number of Species ) 

 found fossil in Great [ 2574 746 7091 815 224 12 172 819 12,453 

 Britain ) 



I trust that this work will not be allowed to remain in MS. ; and 

 that, presuming you will begin with the oldest, we m^y soon look 

 for an instalment in the fauna of the Palseozoic rocks. I have much 

 pleasure in presenting you with this token of the importance which 

 the Geological Society attaches to your labours. 



Mr. Etheridge made the following reply : — 



I have great satisfaction in receiving from you Sir, and the 

 Council of the Geological Society, the award of the Wollaston Fund. 

 It is given for work known to be nearly done, and faith in its com- 

 pletion. The time and labour devoted to my book upon the Strati- 

 graphical Arrangement of the British Fossils has extended over 

 nearly nine years of incessant work, and has been an arduous yet 

 pleasant undertaking, now made lighter by the recognition of those 

 who know and value the researches made for so extensive a catalogue 

 of the British organic remains, now numbering nearly 13,000 species. 

 It is this estimation of my labour by the Council and Society that 

 tends to increase the desire to make my work as perfect as possible, 

 well knowing how difficult, if not impossible, it is to do so. This 

 acknowledgment. Sir, from your hands will stimulate me to finish 

 my researches into the literature of the British species, and their 

 history through space and time throughout Europe. 



The President then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, 

 in which he discussed in considerable detail the bearing of the 

 recent deep-sea dredging operations upon geological reasoning. The 

 Address was prefaced by biographical notices of deceased Fellows, 

 including Sir Proby Cautley, Sir Frederick Pollock, Mr. Eobert 

 Hutton, and Professor Gustav Bischoff, 



The Ballot for the Council and Officers was taken, and the follow- 

 ing were duly elected for the ensuing year : — President: Joseph 

 Prestwich, Esq., F.E.S. Vice-Presidents : Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, 

 Bart., M.P., F.E.S. ; Prof. T. H. Huxley, LL.D., F.E.S. ; Sir Charles 

 Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.E.S. ; Prof. John Morris. Secretaries : John 

 Evans, Esq., F.E.S. ; David Forbes, Esq., F.E.S. Foreign Secretary: 

 Prof. D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.E.S. Treasurer: J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 

 Esq., F.E.S. Council: Prof. D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.E.S.; W. B. 



