﻿IV 
  ANNIVERSARY 
  MEETING. 
  

  

  is 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  156 
  specimens, 
  which 
  were 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Society 
  

   in 
  1860 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Horner, 
  accompanied 
  by 
  a 
  full 
  and 
  instructive 
  cata- 
  

   logue, 
  which 
  may 
  be 
  referred 
  to 
  usefully 
  by 
  those 
  who 
  are 
  studying 
  

   the 
  numerous 
  memoirs 
  on 
  the 
  structure 
  of 
  that 
  remarkable 
  region. 
  

  

  Several 
  years 
  ago 
  the 
  late 
  Earl 
  of 
  Ellesmere 
  made 
  us 
  the 
  very 
  

   handsome 
  donation 
  of 
  the 
  original 
  drawings 
  for 
  the 
  plates 
  of 
  Agas- 
  

   siz's 
  ' 
  Poissons 
  Fossiles.' 
  They 
  are 
  contained 
  in 
  a 
  separate 
  cabinet, 
  

   and 
  will 
  always 
  be 
  regarded 
  with 
  interest 
  as 
  original 
  documents 
  of 
  

   that 
  great 
  work, 
  and 
  as 
  beautiful 
  specimens 
  of 
  art. 
  

  

  The 
  brother 
  of 
  our 
  late 
  lamented 
  President, 
  Mr. 
  Daniel 
  Sharpe, 
  

   presented 
  in 
  1856 
  to 
  the 
  Society 
  a 
  very 
  large 
  and 
  valuable 
  Collection 
  

   of 
  Fossil 
  Mollusca 
  which 
  had 
  belonged 
  to 
  the 
  latter, 
  and 
  had 
  been 
  

   named 
  by 
  him, 
  including 
  the 
  important 
  information 
  of 
  localities. 
  

   They 
  are 
  arranged 
  zoologically, 
  and 
  may 
  be 
  consulted 
  with 
  great 
  

   facility. 
  

  

  In 
  recent 
  Numbers 
  of 
  our 
  Quarterly 
  Journal 
  the 
  Fellows 
  will 
  

   have 
  read 
  the 
  very 
  remarkable 
  papers 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Duncan 
  on 
  the 
  Fossil 
  

   Corals 
  of 
  the 
  West 
  India 
  Islands. 
  The 
  Council 
  have 
  thought 
  it 
  

   advisable 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  special 
  collection 
  of 
  these 
  Corals, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  faci- 
  

   litate 
  the 
  careful 
  study 
  of 
  these 
  papers. 
  An 
  interleaved 
  copy 
  of 
  the 
  

   memoirs, 
  in 
  which 
  Dr. 
  Duncan 
  will 
  give 
  additional 
  illustrations, 
  ac- 
  

   companies 
  the 
  collection. 
  There 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  named 
  Collection 
  of 
  Fossil 
  

   Foraminifera 
  in 
  the 
  Society's 
  possession, 
  and 
  a 
  similar 
  set 
  of 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  of 
  Polyzoa 
  is 
  in 
  course 
  of 
  being 
  collected. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  three 
  special 
  collections 
  which 
  have 
  a 
  peculiar 
  value 
  as 
  

   connected 
  with 
  the 
  lithology 
  and 
  nomenclature 
  of 
  the 
  early 
  days 
  of 
  

   our 
  science. 
  In 
  1808, 
  Dr. 
  Babington, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  founders 
  of 
  the 
  

   Society, 
  presented 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  119 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Hartz 
  Moun- 
  

   tains. 
  In 
  1818, 
  Mr. 
  Henry 
  Heuland, 
  an 
  early 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Society, 
  

   gave 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  271 
  specimens 
  from 
  various 
  parts 
  of 
  Germany 
  — 
  one 
  

   of 
  the 
  typical 
  collections 
  formed 
  under 
  the 
  eye 
  of 
  Werner, 
  illustra- 
  

   tive 
  of 
  the 
  geological 
  system 
  and 
  nomenclature 
  of 
  the 
  then 
  famous 
  

   School 
  at 
  Freyberg. 
  The 
  Count 
  de 
  Bournon, 
  an 
  eminent 
  mineralo- 
  

   gist, 
  and 
  also 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  founders 
  of 
  this 
  Society, 
  on 
  his 
  return 
  with 
  

   the 
  Bourbons 
  to 
  France 
  in 
  1815, 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Society 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  

   356 
  specimens 
  from 
  Hungary, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  formed 
  by 
  the 
  traveller 
  

   Beudant. 
  

  

  These 
  three 
  last 
  special 
  collections 
  are 
  valuable, 
  not 
  only 
  as 
  illus- 
  

   trating 
  the 
  geology 
  of 
  the 
  countries, 
  but 
  are 
  curious 
  as 
  enabling 
  us 
  

   to 
  compare 
  the 
  rock-nomenclature 
  of 
  past 
  and 
  present 
  time, 
  and 
  how 
  

   far 
  it 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  changed 
  with 
  advantage 
  or 
  otherwise. 
  

  

  The 
  Council 
  have 
  thus 
  given 
  a 
  brief 
  outline 
  of 
  the 
  materials 
  for 
  

   study 
  which 
  the 
  Fellows 
  are 
  possessed 
  of, 
  and 
  for 
  consulting 
  which 
  

   the 
  Council 
  give 
  every 
  facility 
  which 
  the 
  means 
  in 
  their 
  power 
  enable 
  

   them 
  to 
  supply. 
  

  

  The 
  Council 
  have 
  to 
  report 
  that 
  they 
  have 
  awarded 
  the 
  Wol- 
  

   laston 
  Medal 
  to 
  Sir 
  Roderick 
  Murchison, 
  K.C.B., 
  for 
  his 
  many 
  dis- 
  

   tinguished 
  services 
  to 
  Palaeozoic 
  Geology 
  : 
  especially 
  — 
  

  

  1st. 
  For 
  his 
  great 
  work 
  entitled 
  "The 
  Silurian 
  System/' 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  

  

  