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sident of this Society, I had the honour of communicating to the 

 Council the Donation, under which the Medal now bearing Dr. 

 WoUaston's name was instituted : — and, not many days afterwards, 

 it became my duty to notify his death from the Chair. The 

 Medal is stamped with his portrait ; and you can judge how highly 

 it will be prized, both by my family and myself. 



The President then addressed Mr. Morris as follows : — 

 Mr. Morris, — I have now the pleasure of presenting to you the 

 balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund, which the Council 

 have awarded to you this year in consideration of the forthcoming new 

 edition of your * Catalogue of British Fossils.' The accumulation 

 of new species has of late years been so rapid that such a work cau 

 only be rendered adequate to meet the constantly increasing demands 

 of geologists by new editions, requiring renewed research and continued 

 labour on the part of the author. You have not shrunk from the 

 task of bringing your work up to the standard required, though, we 

 fear, with little prospect of pecuniary recompense adequate to your 

 labours. The Council, therefore, have much satisfaction in offering 

 you such aid as the Wollaston Fund places at their disposal, and hope 

 that you will regard this award as an indication of their high estima- 

 tion of your work. 



Mr. Morris briefly replied. 



After the other proceedings had been completed, and the Officers 

 and Council had been elected, the President proceeded to address the 

 Meeting. 



ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 



WILLIAM HOPKINS, Esq. 



Gentlemen, — Before I proceed to discuss the scientific subjects on 

 which I may have on this occasion to address you, it becomes my 

 duty, according to the estabhshed custom of our Society, to lay before 

 you some brief notices of those most distinguished for scientific attain- 

 ments, among the late Fellows of the Society, whose deaths we have 

 had to regret in the course of the past year. 



Dr. Kidd, late Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of 

 Oxford, was formerly a King Scholar of Westminster, and about 1798 

 was elected a Student of Christ Church. In 1803 he was elected, by 

 Convocation, Aldrichian Professor of Chemistry, being the first holder 

 of that Professorship immediately after its being founded under the 

 will of Dr. Aldrich. In this branch he was a popular and instructive 

 lecturer. He also gave, voluntarily, courses of lectures on the sciences 

 of Mineralogy and Geology, the latter of which, especially, was then 



