11 ANNIVEESART MEETING. 



The New Edition of the Greenough Geological Map was completed 

 at the commencement of the year ; it has already met with a satis- 

 factory sale, and can be obtained at the Society's Apartments, or of 

 the agent, Mr. Stanford. 



Among other donations made to the Society since the last Anni- 

 versary, the Council have to make special mention of a marble bust 

 of Dr. Bowerbank, F.E.S., P.G.S., presented, in accordance with his 

 wish, by the Committee of the Bowerbank Testimonial Fund. 



The Council regret to have to report the sudden death, in December 

 last, of the Society's clerk, Mr. G. E. Eoberts ; they have recently 

 appointed Mr. P. G. Eitchie to fill the vacant office. 



The Council have awarded the Wollaston Medal to Sir Charles 

 Lyell, Bart., E.E.S., in recognition of the highly important services 

 he has rendered to Geology by his various original works, and for 

 the masterly and philosophic manner in which he has treated the 

 subject, both in developing the principles and in expounding the ele- 

 ments on which the Science is founded ; and the balance of the pro- 

 ceeds of the Wollaston Fund to Henry Woodward, Esq., E.G.S., 

 E.Z.S., to assist him in his researches on the Fossil Crustacea. 



Report of the Library and Museum Committee, 1865-66. 

 The Museum. 



The additions made to the Society's collections since the last Anni- 

 versary have not been so numerous as in previous years ; they con- 

 sist chiefly of specimens of rocks and minerals from foreign countries. 

 The more important donations are the following : — 1st. An exten- 

 sive collection of Eocks and Minerals from Eoslagen, on the east 

 coast of Sweden, illustrating the structure of magnetic iron-ores and 

 associated rocks and minerals, as well as the relation of granitic veins 

 to these ores, presented by Hilary Bauerman, Esq., F.G.S. 2nd. 

 A series of Devonian Plants from Gaspe, Lower Canada, presented 

 by Principal J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.G.S. 3rd. A collection of 

 Jurassic Fossils, chiefly Brachiopoda, from Normandy, including a 

 series of minute fossils from the Leptsena-beds, presented by Ealph 

 Tate, Esq., F.G.S. 4th. A collection of Metamorphic Eocks, exhi- 

 biting traces of organic remains, from the Alps, presented by Sign. 

 Crescenzo Montagna. And 5thly, a collection of Devonian Corals 

 from Poland, presented by Sir E. I. Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., 

 F.G.S. 



The chief additions made to the " British Collection " during the 

 year are : 1st a series of Ehomboidal Specimens of Clay -ironstone 

 and Iron-sandstone from the CoUingwood Quarry, Kent, and the 

 ClanmuUen Quarry, near Edenderry, King's County, presented by 

 Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., F.G.S., and Capt. T. Longworth Dames ; 

 and, 2ndly, specimens of siliceous casts of corals from the Carboni- 

 ferous Limestone of County Dublin, presented by H. B. Brady, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



Satisfactory progress has been made since the last Anniversary in 



