U ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



funded in that year, have been invested in the Funds. The total 

 amount received from these 133 compounders is564189 10^. The 

 amount of Stock held by the Society at the close of 1851 was 

 ^3792 3s. Ud., and at the close of 1852, ^3888 10«. 6d., while 

 one composition remains in hand to be invested in the present year. 

 The estimated value of the Society's Stock at the close of the past 

 year, Consols being at par, was s63888 10*. 6d. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. VIII. of 

 the Quarterly Journal, and the pubhcation of the first Number of 

 Vol. IX. 



During the past year, Mr. A. Geddes Bain, the indefatigable 

 explorer of the geology of S. Africa, and discoverer of the Dicy- 

 nodon, forwarded to the Society, from the Cape of Good Hope, four 

 additional cases of fossils, chiefly consisting of bones imbedded in a 

 hard matrix of limestone ; nineteen boxes containing similar remains 

 and rock-specimens having been sent previously. The Council 

 feeling the great interest that is attached to these fossils, but, at 

 the same time, not having at their disposal the means requisite 

 for extracting them from the matrix and preparing them for the 

 study of the anatomist, applied to Professor Owen for advice. 

 Professor Owen, after due consideration, recommended that the 

 fossils should be transferred to the British Museum, with a view to 

 their being extracted and made available for science. He, at the 

 same time, recommended that it should be represented to the Trustees 

 of the British Museum, that in his opinion the sum of ^150 would 

 be a reasonable remuneration to Mr. Bain for the expense he 

 had incurred in collecting the fossils and forwarding them to the 

 Cape. The Council acted upon both the suggestions of Professor 

 Owen ; and shortly after, had the gratification of receiving a letter 

 from Sir H. Ellis, expressing the thanks of the Trustees for the offer 

 of the Cape Fossils, and mforming them that the sum of j6150 had 

 been awarded by the Trustees to Mr. Bain, as some remuneration for 

 the heavy charges he had incurred. 



At the last Annual Meeting it was announced to the Society, that 

 Mr. Greenough and Mr. Sharpe had most obligingly undertaken to 

 supply a great desideratum in the Society's Library, by colouring, 

 geologically, Lewis's Map of Scotland. This laborious task, involving 

 so much of research and of minute information, has been accomplished 

 by Mr. Sharpe, with the assistance of the information supplied him 

 by Mr. Greenough, and his Map has been laid before the Council ; 

 who immediately passed a resolution, " That the best thanks of the 

 Council be given to Mr. Sharpe for this donation: and that Mr. 

 Sharpe be requested to correct the Map from time to time, as new 

 and more perfect information may be received." The Council anti- 

 cipate that the Society will join them in this request, as well as in 

 acknowledgements to Mr. Sharpe for this valuable present. 



In conclusion, the Council have to aimounce, that they have 

 awarded a Wollaston Palladium Medal to M. Edouard de Verneuil, 

 and to M. le Vicomte d'Archiac, members of the Geological Society 

 of France, for their numerous valuable contributions to geology, and 



