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vided into sets, for presentation to other scientific bodies. Of those 

 Societies which have applied for duplicate specimens, the Council 

 have preferred the claims of such as apply their collections to educa- 

 tional purposes; conceiving that in so doing they best promote a taste 

 for geological investigation. They have accordingly directed sets 

 of rocks and minerals to be presented to the Societies enumerated 

 in the Report of the Museum Committee. 



The Council have also to announce, that in consideration of the 

 long and faithf ul services of Mr. Charles Nichols, they have resolved 

 that his salary henceforth, dating from the last quarter, shall be £120 

 per annum. 



In conclusion they have to inform the Society that they have 

 awarded the Wollaston Palladium Medal for this year to Professor 

 Adam Sedgwick for his important and original researches in Geology, 

 more especially for his Memoirs inserted in the Transactions of the 

 Geological Society of London and Philosophical Society of Cam- 

 bridge, developing the structure of the British Isles, the Alps, and 

 Rhenish provinces ; and that they have granted the balance of the 

 proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund to M. Joachim Barrande, 

 for the purpose of assisting him in the publication of his valuable 

 work on the Silurian System and Fossils of Bohemia. 



Report of the Museum and Library Committee. 



The Committee beg leave to present the following Report on the 

 state of the Museum and Library, and on the progress made in those 

 departments during the past year. 



Museum. 



British Collection. — This most important part of the Society's 

 collection continues in the excellent order in which it was left by 

 Mr. Lonsdale and his successors, which is such as to enable any 

 visitor consulting it to find the object he is in search of without waste 

 of time. Mr. Jones has placed in their proper drawers the specimens 

 which have been presented to the Society during the year, and also 

 some good British fossils which were found in examining the accu- 

 mulation of specimens which had formed in the crypts. The drawers 

 are nearly all full, but it will be easy to find room for the specimens 

 likely to be presented during several years, by discarding many of 

 the inorganic specimens, which are of little interest in the present 

 state of science. 



Foreign Collection. — The Committee reappointed by the Council 

 to arrange this department have devoted such time to the work as 

 their other occupations permitted : they have placed in drawers, 

 arranged in the order adopted, all the specimens worth retaining, 

 brought from the crypts from time to time. As these repeated ad- 

 ditions frequently deranged the parts of the collection previously 

 arranged, the time consumed has been very great, in consequence 

 of which there still remain some few things to be worked into their 

 places in the Foreign Museum. But when it is remembered that in 



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