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canvass the electors, had not his proposers, M. Elie de Beaumont 

 and M. Dufrenoy, urged him to persevere, even though among his 

 opponents is numbered the distinguished scientific artillery officer. 

 Marshal Vaillant. 



In returning you thanks on the part of M. d'Archiac and M. de 

 Vemeuil, allow me to add, that no honour oflFered to myself could 

 have more truly gratified me, than the adjudication of the "Wollaston 

 Medal to geologists whose attainments I so highly esteem, and for 

 whom I have so sincere a personal regard. 



On delivering to the Secretary the Proceeds of the Wollaston Fund, 

 the President addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Hamilton, — I have to request that you will transmit to 

 M. de Koninck the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund for the present 

 year, which have been awarded to that distinguished palaeontologist 

 "in consideration of his many valuable works on Palseontology, and 

 in order to assist him in the publication of his work on Encrinites 

 now in progress." Geologists are deeply indebted to M. de Koninck 

 for the numerous and able palseontological works which he has pub- 

 hshed during the last twenty years, and it is with more than ordinary 

 satisfaction that the Council have made this award. We could wish 

 that the sum we are able to present to him were such as to afford 

 him more effectual aid in the prosecution of the work in which he is 

 understood to be engaged, but we trust that it will not be the less 

 regarded by him as an indication of the high appreciation in which 

 we hold his palseontological labours. 



Mr. Hamilton stated that he should have great satisfaction in 

 forwarding to M. de Koninck the award of the Council, and begged 

 leave in the name of M. de Koninck to return thanks to the Coimcil 

 for the honour thus shown to him, — an honour which, irrespectively of 

 the amomit of the award, he was certain would be highly valued by 

 M. de Koninck as a proof of the high estimation in which his geo- 

 logical labours were held by this Society. 



ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



Gentlemen, — On the list of those Fellows of our Society whose 

 death during the past year we have to lament, stands first the 

 distinguished name of 



Gideon Algernon Mantell, LL.D., Member of many learned 

 Societies at home and abroad, — who was a memorable instance 

 of a man of genius, constantly and diligently occupied with the" prac- 

 tice of a laborious profession, nevertheless reaching great eminence as 

 a man of science, and finding time, even in the midst of pressing du- 

 ties, to pursue his favourite studies with distinguished success. For 

 several years he practised as a medical man at Lewes in Sussex, in a 

 district which he has rendered classical by his researches into its geo- 

 logical structure. There he collected a vast number of interesting 



