11 ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



of Books, &c, of which about 3650 has already been disbursed and 

 temporarily liquidated out of the ordinary expenditure of 1856 and 

 1857. 



The Council have to announce the completion of the 13th volume 

 of the Quarterly Journal and the publication of the 1st part of 

 volume 14. 



They have further to report that a temporary engagement has 

 been made with Mr. J. Wetherell to assist in the Museum and 

 Library. 



Amongst other donations received since the last Anniversary, the 

 Rev. Mr. Haughton, on the part of the Dublin Geological Society, 

 placed at the disposal of the Society, sixty sets of portions of their 

 Journal, which the Council have chiefly distributed to those Foreign 

 Institutions which receive the Quarterly Journal. 



The Council beg to state that they have lately commenced the 

 gratuitous circulation of monthly Abstracts of the Proceedings of the 

 Society, both to resident and non-resident Fellows, a measure which 

 the Council has adopted with the view of more rapidly communicating 

 to the Fellows the substance of the papers read before the Society. 



They also have to inform the Fellows of the Society that in June 

 last they received a request from Sir ¥m. E. Logan, F.G.S., Direc- 

 tor of the Geological Survey of Canada, on the behalf of the Ameri- 

 can Association, that a Member should be named to represent the 

 Geological Society of London at their Annual Meeting at Montreal, 

 accompanied with an intimation that a free passage, there and back, 

 was at the disposal of the Society. The Council gladly availed them- 

 selves of the generous offer, and requested Professor Ramsay to be 

 the representative of the Society at the American Meeting in August 

 last. 



The Council have anxiously considered how the Geological Map 

 of England, prepared by the late Mr. Greenough, and by him be- 

 queathed to the Society, may be made more available for the pur- 

 poses of Science. No alterations have been made to that Map for 

 nearly 20 years, while during that period our knowledge of the 

 geology of our country has been steadily progressing. They have 

 therefore come to the resolution of placing the Map in the hands of 

 a Special Committee of nine Members, who are empowered to revise 

 the Map, and to lay down upon it such alterations as recent investi- 

 gation suggests. 



They are of opinion that there cannot be a more legitimate mode 

 of applying a portion of those funds, than to the perfecting of that 

 Map, and therefore propose that the expense incident to the revision 

 should be defrayed from the legacy of 56500, bequeathed to the 

 Society by the late Mr. Greenough. 



In conclusion the Council beg to state that they have this year 

 awarded two Wollaston Medals : the one to M. Hermann von Meyer, 

 for his numerous publications on Palaeontology ; the other, together 

 with the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund, 

 to Mr. James Hall of Albany, in testimony of the admiration enter- 

 tained by the Geological Society of London for his geological labours 



