11 ANNIVEESAKY MEETING. 



further arrangement and naming of the Foreign Collections ; .£40 19s. 

 for Cabinets for Australian specimens ; and a sum of .£43 9s. 6d. 

 for the Library. 



The Council have to annoimce the completion of Vol. XYII. of 

 the Quarterly Journal, and the Eirst Part of Yol. XYIII. They 

 have authorized the distribution of the Journal to the Foreign 

 Members of the Society. 



The arrangement of the Foreign Collections has been diligently 

 continued, and for this purpose the second temporary Assistant, 

 engaged at the recommendation of the Special Museum Committee, 

 has been retained up to the present time. 



The question of the amount and nature of the permanent assistance 

 required for the ef&ciency of the Library and Museum has engaged 

 the attention of the Council, and is at present in the hands of a 

 Special Committee. 



With reference to the Greenough Map, the Council have to an- 

 nounce that, after unavoidable delays, the third sheet will soon be 

 ready for publication. 



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

 the Wollaston Medal to Mr. Eobert A. C. Godwin-Austen, for his 

 various researches during the last twentj^- eight years, illustrating 

 in a very original and remarkable manner the physical geography 

 of a large region of Europe during by-gone periods, as mainly com- 

 prised under the four following heads : — 



1st. For his elaborate " Memoir on the Geology of the South-east 

 of Devonshire ; " wherein he pointed out the different periods of 

 disturbance from palgeozoic to almost recent times in that complicated 

 tract, as based upon actual observations made between the years 

 1834 and 1840, both inclusive*. 



2ndly. For his observations on the Geology of the South-east of 

 Surreyt, which, with his Memoir on the Gravel Accumulations of 

 the Yalley of the WeyJ, are explanatory of the changes of land 

 and water in the South-eastern region of England and adjacent 

 parts of France ; whilst his paper " On the Sands of Farringdon " 

 treated of that deposit as an intermede between the Lower Greensand 

 (Neocomian) and the Portland Oohte§. This memoir, together with 

 other papers in our Journal, indicate his views of the probable con- 

 figuration of the land and water in the Western European area 

 during the Mesozoic or Secondary period ||. 



3rdly. For his original and striking Memoirs on the Yalley of 

 the English Channel and the superficial accumulations on its coasts, 

 which define the former physical geography of the South of England 

 and adjacent parts of France, particularly during the Pleistocene 

 period. And, 



4thly. For his bold and ingenious hypothesis, founded on the 

 relations of the older rocks in the North of France and the South of 



' * Geol. Trans. 2nd series, vol. vi. j). 433. t Proc. Geol. See. vol.iv. pp. 167, 196. 

 J Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. vii. p. 278. 

 § Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. vi. p. 454. 

 I Quart. Journ. G^eol. Soc. vol. vi. p. 69, and vol. vii. p. 118. 



