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prepared by the Officers for its information, dealing* with the 

 ■questions of general finance and of the publications of the Society. 

 Believing that these memoranda will be of interest and utility to 

 the i^ellovvs, as a review of the present state of the Society's 

 affairs and an indication of the difficulties of the jDOsition with 

 which it had to contend, the Council has decided to present them 

 to the Societ}'' as an appendix to the Annual Keport. 



During the year 1920 the four parts of the Quarterly Journal 

 constituting Vol. LXXV w^ere published, as also two parts of 

 Vol. LXXVI. A third part was published, on January 17th, 1921, 

 and the fourth part Avill be issued shortly, thus clearing off the 

 arrears of publication of the Quarterly Journal. No issue has been 

 made of the List of Greological Literature, but the compilation has 

 been resumed as from the commencement of 1920 ; the w^ork has 

 been carried on concurrently Avith the receipt of publications, and 

 the List is in preparation for issue. The work of overcoming the 

 arrears of the List for the ^^ears 1914-19 has been taken in hand, 

 and is in progress. 



During the past year the Apartments of the Society have been 

 used for General and for Council Meetings 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 Kay 

 Society, the Koyal Anthropological Institute & the Prehistoric 

 Societ}'' of East Anglia, the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies, 

 and the South-Eastern Union of Scientifiic Societies. 



Sir Aubre}^ Strahan and Prof. W. G. Fearnsides have continued 

 to act during the year as the Geological Societ3^'s representatives 

 on the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies. 



The Proceeds of the Prestwich and Barlow- Jameson Funds 

 have been devoted to the preparation of the List of Geological 

 Literature. 



The Proceeds of the Daniel-Pidgeon Fund for 1919 and 1920 

 were awarded to Miss Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler, who 

 proposes to investigate the Oligocene Flora of the Hordle Cliffs 

 (Hampshire), and to Mr. Laurence Dudley Stamp, who proposes 

 to make a comparative study of the Downtonian and Gedinnian in 

 North- Western Europe. 



. Farther, the following Awards of Medals and Funds have been 

 made : — 



The Wollaston Medal is aw^arded in duplicate to Dr. John 

 Home and Dr. Benjamin Neeve Peach, in recognition of their 

 ■conjoint and individual researches concerning the Mineral Struc- 

 ture of the Earth, especially in connexion with the tectonics, 

 stratigraiDhy, and palaeontology of the rocks of Scotland. 



The Murchison Medal, together with a sum of Ten Guineas 

 from the Murchison Geological Fund, is awarded to Mr. Edgar 

 Sterling Cobbold, as an acknowledgment of the value of his 

 stratigraphical and palseontological researches, more particularly 

 •on the fauna and succession of the Lower Cambrian rocks of 

 Britain. 



