8 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



year, although still showing an excess of Expenditure over Income 

 of £60 17s. 7d. The estimated excess at the last Annual Meeting 

 was ^134 18s. 4d. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. XXXY. of 

 the Quarterly Journal and the commencement of Yol. XXXYI. 



The Council have further to announce that the Catalogue of the 

 Library is completed, and is now in the Printers' hands. It is esti- 

 mated to make a volume of over 500 pages, and will be issued to 

 the PeUows at the price of five shillings. The Council hope that 

 the usefulness of this volume as a guide to the contents of the 

 Library, wiU. lead to its being very generally purchased by the 

 Pellows, so that the cost of its production may speedily be repaid. 

 To meet the immediate expense of printing, &c., the Council pro- 

 pose to sell out the necessary amount of the Stock belonging to the 

 Society ; the sum thus employed to be replaced by the investment 

 of the amounts realized by the sale of the Catalogue. 



The Council have awarded the WoUaston Medal to Professor A. 

 Daubree, of Paris, a Foreign Member of the Society, in recognition 

 of his long and arduous work in Geology, and especially on the for- 

 mation of minerals and the metamorphism of rocks. 



The Murchison Medal and the proceeds of the Murchison Dona- 

 tion Pund have been awarded to Eobert Etheridge, Esq., F.E.S., 

 F.G.S., in recognition of his distinguished services to Palaeontology, 

 especially in the preparation of his most valuable Catalogue of 

 British Fossils, and to assist him in the completion of that work. 



The Lyell Medal, with the sum of Twenty Guineas from the pro- 

 ceeds of the Fund, has been awarded to John Evans, Esq., LL.D., 

 F.E.S., F.G.S., in recognition of his distinguished services to Geo- 

 logical Science, especially in the department of Post-tertiary Geology. 



The balance of the proceeds of the WoUaston Donation Fund has 

 been awarded to Thomas Davies, Esq., F.G.S., as a testimony of the 

 value of his researches in Mineralogy and Lithology, and to assist 

 him in the further examination of the Microscopic structure of 

 Eocks. 



The balance of the proceeds of the LyeU Donation Fund has been 

 awarded to Professor Quenstedt, of Tubingen, a Foreign Member of 

 the Society, in recognition of his distinguished services to Minera- 

 logy and Geology, and to assist him in the publication of his great 

 work ' Die Petrefactenkunde Deutschlands.' 



In pursuance of the resolution announced in the final paragraph 

 of their last Annual Eeport, the Council have procured from Mr. 

 Swift an excellent binocular Microscope for the use of the Fellows 

 of the Society, the cost of which (^33 10s.) has been paid out of the 

 proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund. The instrument is such as 

 to be available for any kind of microscopic work ; but it has' been 

 furnished with appliances which fit it specially for petrographical 

 purposes. 



