﻿X PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I9IO, 



year, and .£2000, the amount of the Sorby and Hudleston Bequests) 

 amounted to £3089 8s. 4cl., being £25 10s. 4d. more than the 

 estimated Income. On the other hand, the total Expenditure during 

 the same year amounted to £3125 19s. 4cZ., being £15 8s. 8d. less 

 than the estimated Expenditure for the year, and £36 lis. Od. more 

 than the actual Receipts, the year closing with a Balance in hand 

 of £178 18s. 2d. 



During the year a sum of £1000 was received from the executors 

 of the late Dr. H. C. Sorby, being the amount of the legacy 

 bequeathed by him to the Society. A similar sum was received 

 from the executors of the late Mr. W. H. Hudleston, the amount 

 of his legacy. The Council have invested the greater part of these 

 two sums in the purchase of £2000 Canada 3| per cent. Stock, at 

 a cost of £1982 lis. Od. 



Following on the informal polls of the Fellows referred to in the 

 last Annual Report, a Special General Meeting of the Society was 

 held on February 10th, 1909, the result of which was announced 

 in the Proceedings for that date, vol. Ixv, p. viii. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. LXY and 

 the commencement of Yol. LXVI of the Society's Journal. 



The seventh Award from the Daniel Pidgeon Trust Fund was 

 made on April 7th, 1909, to Mr. Alexander Moncrieff Finlayson, 

 M.Sc, who proposed to undertake researches on the Genesis of the 

 Sulphide Ores. 



The following Awards of Medals and Funds have also been made 

 by the Council : — 



The Wollaston Medal is awarded to Prof. William Berry in an 

 Scott, in recognition of his ' researches concerning the Mineral 

 Structure of the Earth/ especially in relation to the Tertiary 

 Mammalia and the Tertiary Stratigraphical Geology of North 

 America and Patagonia. 



The Murchison Medal, together with a sum of Ten Guineas 

 from the Murchison Geological Fund, is awarded to Prof. Arthur- 

 Philemon Coleman, in appreciation of his contributions to the 

 advancement of Geological Science, and especially of his work on 

 the Sudbury Nickel- Ore Deposits and his investigations concerning 

 the Glacial Geology of North America. 



The Lyell Medal, together with a sum of Twenty-Five Pounds 

 from the Lyell Geological Fund, is awarded to Dr. Arthur Vaughan, 

 who, in the opinion of the Council, has deserved well of the 

 science, especially in connexion with his researches into the Faunal 

 Succession in the Lower Carboniferous Pocks of the British Isles. 



The Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund is 

 awarded to Mr. Edward Battersby Bailey, in recognition of his 

 work on the Carboniferous Yolcanic Pocks of Scotland and the 

 Tectonic Structure of the Glen Coe Area, and to encourage him 

 in further research. 



The Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund 

 is awarded to Mr. John Walker Stather, in acknowledgment of his. 



