11 ANNIVEESART MEETING. 



these unusual demands on the resources of the Society, the Income 

 of the year has exceeded the Expenditure by .£108 6s. Sd. 



The funded property of the Society remains the same as at the 

 last Anniversary, namely £4560. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Yol. XXII. of 

 the Quarterly Journal, and the publication of the first part of 

 Vol. XXIII. 



They have also to report the appointment of Mr. E. P. Fenton to 

 the office of Clerk in the room of Mr. P. G. Ritchie. 



The Council have awarded the WoUaston Medal to George Poulett 

 Scrope, Esq., M.P., E.E.S., in recognition of the highly important 

 services he has rendered to Geology by his examination and pub- 

 lished descriptions of the volcanic phenomena of Central Prance, 

 and by his works on the subject of volcanic action generally 

 throughout the world ; and the balance of the proceeds of the Wol- 

 laston Eund to William HeUier Baily, Esq., E.L.S., E.G.S., to assist 

 him in the preparation and publication of an Illustrated Catalogue 

 of British Eossils. 



Beport of the Library and Museum Committee, 1866-67. 



The Museum. 



The Society's Museum has received but few accessions during the 

 past year. The chief additions made to the Eoreign Collection 

 are : — ^A collection of rocks from Upper Egypt, presented by J. C. 

 Hawkshaw, Esq., E.G.S. ; and a number of Microscopic slides of 

 Eoraminiferous; and Pteropodous shells from the Miocene beds of 

 Malta, presented by Capt. Spratt, C.B., E.R.S., E.G.S. 



Presentations to the British department of the Society's collec- 

 tions have been made by the Rev. 0. Eisher, M.A., E.G.S., Dr. J. 

 S. Bowerbank, E.R.S., E.G.S. , and John Lawson, Esq., the most 

 important gift being the type specimen of Crioceras BowerhanJci, 

 presented by Dr. Bowerbank. 



The fossils of the British Pliocene deposits have been remounted, 

 named, and arranged in 24 drawers, which have been fitted with 

 glass for the preservation of these more or less fragile specimens. 

 The Committee recommend that all the fragile fossils be similarly 

 protected, as they are cleaned and re-named, in order to preserve 

 them from fm^ther injury. 



Great progress has been made since the last Anniversary in the 

 naming and generah arrangement of the Eoreign collection; this 

 work is still in hand, but it is expected that the naming of such 

 remaining Eoreign fossils as are more easily determinable wiU be 

 completed in the course of the present year. This part of the Society's 

 collection is much superior to the British portion, and is more con- 

 sulted ; and your Committee would therefore invite the attention of 

 Eellows, Eoreign Members, and Eoreign Correspondents to our desi- 

 derata, the supplying of which would aid in comparisons of British and 

 continental species. " The Eoreign Collection is chiefly deficient in 



