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temporary Assistant was engaged at the recommendation of the Spe- 

 cial Museum Committee, — a step which has greatly assisted the pro- 

 gress reported by the Miiseum Committee. 



The Council have to report that on the resignation of the office of 

 Clerk by Mr. Nichols, they considered it due to his long services to 

 present him with a sum of £50 ; and determined to recommend to the 

 General Meeting to award him a further sum of £70, making up one 

 year's salary. 



A great number of Candidates having presented themselves for the 

 post thus vacated, the Council, after a careful examination of testi- 

 monials, have bestowed the appointment on Mr. George E. Roberts. 



In conclusion, the Council have to report that they have conferred 

 theWoUaston Medal on Professor Bronn, of Heidelberg, for his long and 

 successful labours in aiding the progress of geological science in ge- 

 neral, and more particularly for the assistance he has afforded to the 

 progress of Palaeontology, as evidenced in his ' Index Palseontologi- 

 cus,' and especially in his later work on the " Laws of the Develop- 

 ment of the Organic World ; " and the balance of the proceeds of the 

 "Wollaston Fund to M. Daubree, of Strasbourg, to aid in the prosecu- 

 tion of synthetic experiments, similar to those of which he has re- 

 cently given an account, and which he has intimated his intention of 

 continuing, with the object of throwing light upon metamorphic ac- 

 tion. 



Report of the Library and Museum Committee. 

 Museum. 



The Collections of Minerals and of Eecent Shells have received but 

 few additions ; and in the latter the places of certain genera still re- 

 quire to be rilled up. 



The re- arrangement and re-naming of the British Silurian col- 

 lection has been completed by Mr. Salter ; and the specimens have 

 been furnished with new tablets and labels : they now occupy 50 

 drawers. 



The Bev. T. Wiltshire is proceeding with the arrangement of the 

 Chalk Fossils in the Museum. 



For specimens received since the last Anniversary, illustrating the 

 geology of the British Isles, the Society is indebted especially to A. 

 Geikie, Esq., F.G.S., J. Evans, Esq., F.G.S., and the Bev. B. Hunter ; 

 and a large collection of fossil bones from Shorncliffe, lately forwarded 

 by the War-Department, is worthy of particular notice. 



The Foreign Collection has been enriched with numerous dona- 

 tions, among which the Committee would especially invite the atten- 

 tion of the Society to a valuable series of rock-specimens from Meissen, 

 and another from the Yosges Mountains, presented by the President : 

 the latter series, having been carefully selected and named in accord- 

 ance with the descriptions of M. Delesse, form an important typical 

 collection. They have also to notice Mr. Bennett's Trilobites from 

 Newfoundland, Mr. Mallet's Volcanic products from Italy, and va- 



