11 ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



II. That a Class of Foreign Correspondents be instituted, not 

 exceeding forty in number. 



III. That the Foreign Members shall be elected out of the list of 

 Foreign Correspondents. 



The Council will take an early opportunity of laying before the 

 Fellows the names of a number of gentlemen whom they propose to 

 nominate as Corresponding Members in conformity with the above 

 resolutions. 



At the same Special General Meeting it was also resolved that 

 the Meetings of the Society shall be held in the Society's rooms 

 at Somerset House, on and after the Anniversary Meeting next 

 ensuing. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Yol. XVIII. of 

 the Quarterly Journal, and the publication of Part 1 of Vol. XIX. 



The S.E. sheet, No. 6, of the Greenough Map is now ready for 

 publication, and will be issued shortly. The remaining sheets are in 

 course of preparation, and it is hoped that some of them will be 

 ready at no distant date. 



The Council regret to have to announce the resignation of the 

 Secretaryship by Professor Huxley, in consequence of the pressure 

 of his other occupations. 



At the end of last Session Mr. Rupert Jones also resigned the 

 office of Assistant-Secretary, which he could not longer hold con- 

 sistently with his professorial duties at the Military College, Sand- 

 hurst. The Council received this resignation with the greatest 

 regret, having reason to feel the highest satisfaction with the 

 excellent manner in which Mr. Jones has for a long term of years 

 performed the duties of his office. Among a great number of candi- 

 dates for the vacant post, whose recommendations were carefully 

 considered, the Council selected Mr. H. M. Jenkins, whose assiduity 

 and experience in the business of the Society, whilst acting as assist- 

 ant to Mr. Jones, appear in a high degree to qualify him as an 

 efficient Assistant-Secretary. 



The Council have awarded the Wollaston Medal to Professor 

 Gustav Bischof, of Bonn, in recognition of the eminent services 

 rendered by him to Geological Science by his long- continued and 

 laborious chemical investigations on the origin and changes of 

 minerals and rock-substances, as well as by his numerous publica- 

 tions on similar subjects, and especially by the production of his 

 great work on Physical and Chemical Geology ; and the balance of 

 the proceeds to Dr. Ferdinand Senft, of Eisenach, to encourage him 

 in the continuation of his meritorious researches in various branches 

 of geology. 



Report of the Library and Museum Committee, 1862-63. 



The Museum. 



The Foreign Collection has been enriched during the past year by 

 numerous donations, including a series of specimens of Devonian 

 Plants and Carboniferous Reptiles from Nova Scotia, presented by 



