11 ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



and has been temporarily liquidated out of the ordinary expenditure 

 of the last four years. 



The Council have to announce the completion of vol. xv. of the 

 Quarterly Journal, and the publication of the first part of vol. xvi. 

 They moreover recently resolved that the Abstracts should no longer 

 be published for distribution,— and that, taking into consideration 

 the desirableness of bringing up the arrears of publication, a full 

 Number of the Journal be published as a Supplement to the volume 

 for 1859. 



In pursuance of the announcement made in the Report of the 

 Council of last year, a Special General Meeting of the Society was 

 held on the 15th of June last, at which it was resolved that new 

 Bye-Laws (Section VI. A., p. 9,) should be enacted, to the effect 

 that Non-resident Fellows proposed and elected on and after the 

 2nd of Nov., 1859, should pay an Admission Fee of Six Guineas, 

 and an Annual Contribution of £1 lis. 6d. 



The Council have to report that two sheets of the new edition of 

 the Greenough Map are now ready for publication, and that the re- 

 mainder are in an advanced state. 



A resolution has been passed, in order to increase the facilities for 

 receiving the Journal, that the Non-resident Fellows who were 

 elected before the 30th of Nov., 1859, be allowed to compound for 

 future annual payments on account of that publication by a compo- 

 sition of £Q. 



In order to enable the Special Committee to carry out the re- 

 arrangement of the Museum, the sum of .£50 from the Greenough 

 bequest has been placed to the credit of that Committee. The Council 

 have also voted a sum of £50 for the purchase of books reported on 

 by a Committee as greatly required in the Library. 



The Council have to announce the handsome bequest to the 

 Society of £300 by the late Mr. John Brown, of Stanway, and the 

 donation of £20 by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., of Middle Hill. 



Lastly, the Council have to state that they have awarded the 

 Wollaston Medal to Mr. Searles V. Wood for his contributions to our 

 knowledge of the Testacean Fauna of the later geological periods, 

 and especially for his valuable work on the Crag Mollusca. The 

 balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund are awarded 

 to Messrs. T. Rupert Jones and W. K. Parker, to aid in their further 

 researches on Recent and Fossil Foraminifera. 



Report of the Library and Museum Committee. 



Museum. 



The Committee will first give an account of the Museum, as it 

 cannot be doubted that the efficiency of the Geological Society as an 

 instrument for promoting and extending sound geological knowledge 

 must materially depend on the manner in which its Museum is 

 arranged and rendered available to the student and inquirer, both of 

 our own and of foreign countries. During the past year many 

 valuable suites of specimens, both British and foreign, have been 



