part 1] ANNUAL REPORT. ix 



published, constituting the remainder of VoL LXXVI and the 

 whole of the current volume for the year, Vol. LXXVII. The 

 List of Geological Literature for 1913 (the compilation of which 

 had been commenced by Mr. C. P. Chatwin during his tenure 

 of the Librarian ship, and completed after his retirement from 

 that office) and that for 1920 (Authors & Titles) were also 

 published within the year, and great progress has been made in 

 the compilation of the List for the 3^ears 1915-1919. 



During the year the Council has given consideration to the 

 Card Catalogue and List of Geological Literature. In view of 

 the present financial position and commitments of the Society, it 

 decided that the publication of the subject-index must be dis- 

 continued for the present. The Council expresses its regret that 

 this action, which it recognizes as seriously diminishing the value 

 of the publication, should be necessary, and regards the resumption 

 of the subject-index as a matter which must be kept in mind, 

 when improvement in the financial conditions of the Society 

 permits. In the altered conditions it became unnecessary to con- 

 tinue the arrangement with Mr. C. D. Sherborn, by which he 

 edited the Card Catalogue and incorporated the cards for both 

 authors and subjects from year to year since he commenced the 

 Catalogue in 1901. In terminating this arrangement the Council 

 recorded its appreciation of Mi". Sherborn's past services in the 

 preparation of the Card Catalogue. 



The Apartments of this Society have been used for General and 

 for Council Meetings during the past year by the Institution of 

 Mining Engineers, the Institution of Mining & Metallurgy, the 

 Institution of Water Engineers, the Society of Engineers, the 

 Mineralogical Society, the Palseontographical Society, the Pre- 

 historic Societ}^ of East Anglia, the Ray Society, the Conjoint 

 Board of Scientific Societies, and the South-Eastern Union of 

 Scientific Societies. 



Sir Aubrey Strahan and Prof. W. G. Fearn sides continued to 

 act during the jesiY 1921 as the Geological Society's represen- 

 tatives on the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies, and Mr. B. D. 

 Oldham was nominated to represent this Society on the Geophysical 

 Committee of the Royal Astronomical Society. 



The Proceeds of the Daniel-Pidgeon Fund for 1921 were awarded 

 to Mr. Frederic Stretton Wallis, of Bristol University and the 

 Bristol Museum, who proposes to carry out researches on the Old 

 Red Sandstone and the Carboniferous Limestone of the Bristol 

 District ; and to Mr. Ralph Walter Segnit, of Oxford Universit}^, 

 who proposes to carry out an investigation of the stratigraphical dis- 

 tribution of the Corn brash, based on a study of its faunal succession. 



Further, the following Awards of Medals and Funds have 

 been made : — 



The Wollaston Medal to Dr. Alfred Harker, in recognition 

 of his researches concerning the Mineral Structure of the Earth, 

 especially in connexion with the natural history of igneous 

 rocks. 



