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amounted to £2627 4.^. Od., being £68 lO*-. Od. more than the 

 estimated Expenditm'e, and the vear closed with a Balance in hand 

 of £676 12s. 5^/. 



On accomit of the special need at the present time of safe- 

 guarding the Society's Archives, a strong-room has been built for 

 their reception ; and the existence of a particularly suitable site 

 in the basement of the Apartments permitted of this being carried 

 out at a comparatively low cost. 



In response to the Treasury's appeal to holders of Canadian 

 Securities, the Society's holding of £2000 Canadian 3i per cent. 

 Registered Stock, in which the Sorby and Hudleston Bequests 

 Avere invested, was deposited on loan Avith H.M. Government 

 (under Treasury Scheme B). 



With regard to the publications of the Society, the Council has 

 to announce the completion of Vol. LXXI of the Quarterly 

 Journal (1915). 



In accordance with the provisions of the modification of Bye- 

 Law Section YI, Art. 4, sanctioned at the Special General Meeting 

 of March 10th, 1915, the Council has. on the motion of the 

 Treasurer, remitted the contributions of 31 Fellows serving with 

 His Majesty's Forces. 



During the past year the Apartments of the Society have been 

 used for General and for Council Meetings by the Mineralogical 

 Society, the Paheontographical Society, the Bay Society, the Geo- 

 logical Physics Society, the Institution of Mining Engineers, the 

 Institution of Mining & Metallurgy, the Institution of Water 

 Engineers, the Institution of Municipal & County Engineers, 

 the Society of Engineers, and the Soutli-Eastern Union of 

 Scientific Societies. 



At the request of the Advisory Council for Scientific & In- 

 dustrial Eesearch. a Committee was formed to assist the Ad-vdsory 

 Council on matters of geological importance that might arise from 

 time to time. A Committee has also been formed to co-operate 

 with the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies, and Dr. A. Strahan 

 and Prof. W. G. Fearnsides have been nominated as the Society's 

 representatives on this Board. 



The fourteenth Award from the Daniel Pidgeon Trust Fund 

 was made on April 5th, 1916, to John Kaye Cliarles worth, M.Sc, 

 Ph.D., who proposed to conduct researches in connexion Avith the 

 Glaciation of Donegal. 



The following Awards of Medals and Funds have also been 

 made : — 



The Wollaston Medal is awarded to Prof. Antoine Francois 

 Alfred Lacroix, in recognition of his 'researches concerning the 

 Mineral Structure of the Earth,' especially in connexion with the 

 Mineralogy and Petrology of France and her Colonies. 



The Murchison Medal, together with a sum of Ten Guineas 

 from the Murchison Geological Fund, is awarded to Dr. George 

 Frederic Matthew, as an acknowledgment of his valuable Avork on 

 the Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the LoAver Palaeozoic Rocks 

 of North America. 



