U ANNIVEESARY MEETHSTG-. 



They have also to report that in March last Mr. Ralph Tate wa 

 appointed to fill the office of Library and Museum Assistant, rendere 

 vacant a few months previously by the resignation of Mr. Stair. 



The New Edition of the Greenough Geological Map has been 

 completed, and will shortly be ready for distribution and sale. 



The Council have further to announce that they have unanimously 

 awarded the WoUaston Medal to Thomas Davidson, Esq., E.li.S., for 

 the highly important services he has rendered through many years 

 to the science of Geology, by his critical and philosophical works on 

 Eossil Brachiopoda, the illustrations of which have been drawn by 

 himself, and entirely at his own expense ; and the balance of the 

 proceeds of the WoUaston Fund to J. W. Salter, Esq., F.G.S., in 

 recognition of his valuable services in the elucidation of Palaeozoic 

 Fossils, and to assist him in completing his Monograph on British 

 Trilobites. 



Report of the Library and Museum Committee, 1864-65, 

 The Museum. 



The Society's Foreign Collection has received several important 

 additions since the last Anniversary, of which the following are more 

 particularly worthy of notice : — An extensive and interesting collec- 

 tion of Fossil Foraminifera from India, including several preparations 

 showing microscopic structure, presented by Dr. H. J. Carter, F.E..S. 

 A remarkably large specimen of Graphite, and a smaller one exhi- 

 biting a Prismatic or Crystalline structure, from the Lower Tour- 

 gouska District of Northern Siberia, presented by M. Sidoroff, of 

 St. Petersburg. A series of Miocene Fossils from Messina, and 

 one from Poland, presented by Sir Charles LyeU, Bart., F.G.S., and 

 Alfred Evans, Esq., respectively. A collection of Neocomian Fossils 

 from Mce, presented by Alan Lambert, Esq., F.G.S. ; and one of 

 Cenomanien Fossils from Normandy, presented by E. Tate, Esq., 

 F.G.S. The collections in illustration of the Geology of the colonies 

 have been enlarged by the presentation of a suite of Fossils from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, by Dr. Rubidge, F.G.S. ; of Tertiary Corals 

 from South AustraHa and from Jamaica, by Dr. P. Martin Duncan, 

 Sec.G.S. ; of Rocks and Fossils from the Coal-measures of New 

 South Wales, by W. Keene, Esq.; and especially by the gift of a 

 very fine specimen of Eozom Ganadense, and a Section showing its 

 minute structure, by Sir W. E. Logan, F.G.S. 



Considerable progress has been made during the past year in the 

 rearrangement of the collections and the naming of the specimens. 

 Mr. Tate has named and placed upon new tablets the whole of the 

 British Liassic and Rhsetic specimens, occupying about 36 drawers ; 

 and has filled up many of the gaps in the Society's Collection 

 by donations from his own cabinet. Dr. Dimcan has continued 

 the work in the Museum which he began last year, and has now 

 named nearly all the specimens of Fossil Corals in the Foreign Col- 

 lections ; these have been placed upon tablets by Mr. Tate and Mr. 

 Horace Woodward, and, to prevent injury to fragile specimens, some 



