H ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



nounce that, acting on the suggestion of some of its Members, who 

 consider that the object recommended by the Auditors in 1833, viz. 

 that all compositions should be funded until a capital sum should 

 be created equal to the amount of compositions paid by the existing 

 compounders, has been so nearly attained that a rigid adherence to 

 the rule is no longer called for, they have resolved that the compo- 

 sitions for the year 1853 should not be funded. They trust that by 

 investing these sums in the purchase of books and maps for the 

 Library, in extending their publications, and in providing additional 

 assistance in the Museum, the efficiency of the Society will be main- 

 tained, and its collections be rendered still more available to those 

 engaged in the pursuit of geological investigation. 



Acting on this principle, they have ordered that the sum of 3650, 

 out of the balance in favour of the Society during the past year, be 

 applied to the purchase of books for the Library, and a further sum 

 of ^630 for the purpose of procuring assistance in the Museum. 



The Council have to announce the completion of the 9th volume 

 of the Journal and the publication of Part I. of Vol. X. They have 

 also to announce, that, in consideration of the great importance 

 attached to the Memoir of Mr. A. Geddes Bain, noticed in their 

 last Annual Report, and the necessity of having the fossils engraved 

 on a large scale, — in connection with the fact of Mr. Bain's former 

 paper, with Professor Owen's description of the fossils, having been 

 so printed, — they have resolved that Mr. Bain's last paper should 

 also be printed in the 4to form, accompanied by a description of the 

 fossils, prepared by the Committee appointed to report on the fossil 

 shells. This will form Part IV. of the 7th Volume of the Trans- 

 actions. 



Since the publication of the Catalogue of books in the Society's 

 Library, the increase has been so considerable both from purchases 

 and donations, that the Cou.ncil resolved at the close of last Session 

 that a classed Supplement to the Library Catalogue should be forth- 

 with prepared. Mr. Jones has since been as actively engaged in its 

 preparation as his other duties will permit, and they trust that the 

 Catalogue mil be ready for the use of Fellows in a very short time. 

 It will also contain a list of the principal MS. Maps and Sections 

 which have come into the Society's possession in explanation of 

 original papers and memoirs read at the evening meetings. 



In conclusion, the Council have to inform the Society that they 

 have awarded the Wollaston Palladium Medal for this year to Richard 

 Griffith, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S.E., M.R.I.A., and F.G.S., Inspector- 

 General of Her Majesty's Royal Mines in Ireland, and Chairman of 

 the Board of Commissioners of Pubhc Works in Ireland, for the 

 valuable services rendered by him to Geological Science, and parti- 

 cularly for his Geological Map of Ireland, the result of his own 

 laborious and judicious researches ; the Council have further resolved, 

 that the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund be 

 awarded to Mr. S. P. Woodward for his recent paljeontographical 

 labours, and to assist him in the publication of his researches on the 

 Structure and Affinities of Brachiopoda and Rudista. 



