12 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



course of the year. In this way 7 yacancies were caused in the 

 List of Foreign Correspondents, 5 of which were filled up in 1889, 

 leaving- two vacancies in the list at the end of the year. 



The total llcceipts on account of Income for 1889 were 

 c£2775 145. 3d., being .£169 19s. 7d. more than the estimated 

 Income for the year. The current Expenditure of the year, leaving 

 out of account the sum of £198 5s. Qd. expended in the purchase 

 of £200 Consolidated 2| per cent. Stock, was £2576 17s. Id., being 

 £6 7s. Id. more than the Estimate. The actual excess of Eeceipts 

 over Expenditure during the year amounted to £198 17s. 2d., and 

 the Balance in favour of the Society to £249 4s. Id. 



In accordance with the statement made in the last Annual 

 Report of the Council several Special General Meetings were held 

 during the Spring of the 5'ear 1889 for the discussion of suggested 

 amendments of the Bye-Laws. The last of these Meetings was on 

 May 22nd, when the Bye-Laws as amended were formally balloted 

 for and carried. The amended Bye-Laws were then immediately 

 printed and circulated among the Eellows of the Society. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Yol. XLY., 

 and the commencement of Yol. XLYI. of the Society's Quarterly 

 Journal. 



They have also to mention that Mr. Ormerod has prepared and 

 sent in a Third Supplement to his Index to the Publications of the 

 Society, and that this is now in the Printer's hands. 



At the end of last year Prof. Prestwich wrote to the Council on 

 the subject of a series of MS> notes prepared by Dr. James Mitchell, 

 a former Eellow of the Society (who died in 1844), containing the 

 results of his investigations upon the Geology and Botany of the 

 neighbourhood of London, which were especially valuable as referring 

 particularly to the Economic Geology of the District. These notes, 

 having been collected and transcribed, now form five folio volumes, 

 which have been in Prof. Prestwich's possession for many years, 

 and as he now knows of no surviving relatives of the late Dr. Mit- 

 chell, he desired to deposit the books in the Society's Library, on 

 the understanding, however, that should any legitimate claimant 

 appear and apply for them they are to be given up. As Prof. 

 Prestwich considered that the notes contained in these volumes 

 might prove useful to Geologists engaged in similar investigations, 

 the Council at once accepted his offer, and the books have now been 

 deposited in the Library. 



The Council have awarded the WoUaston Medal to Prof. AYilliam 

 Crawford Williamson, LL.D., E.E.S., in recognition of the valuable 

 services rendered by him to the study of Natural History and 

 Geology, especially by his researches on the Eoraminifera and on 

 Fossil Botany. 



The Murchison Medal, with the sum of Ten Guineas from the 

 Proceeds of the Fund, has been awarded to Prof. Edward Hull, 

 LL.D., F.E.S., F.G.S., in testimony of appreciation of the value of 

 his work as a Geological Surveyor, both in England and in Ireland, 

 through a long series of years, and also of his recent investigations 

 upon the Geology of Palestine. 



