ANNUAL REPORT. 



They have much pleasure in announcing the valuable donation 

 from Mr. Weekes of his bust of Prof. Sedgwick, which has been 

 placed in an appropriate niche in the old Meeting-room ; and they 

 are glad to avail themselves of this opportunity of testifying their 

 admiration of this excellent work of art, conveying as it does, such 

 a striking likeness of our eminent Associate. 



It is with much regret that the Council have to announce, that in 

 consequence of the numerous avocations undertaken by Prof. Ansted, 

 which were found to be incompatible with the efficient discharge of 

 his duties towards this Society, they should have been deprived 

 of his valuable services. The necessary steps have been taken to- 

 wards supplying the vacancy as eiFectively and as expeditiously as 

 possible. 



Mr. Nichol, the Clerk and Resident Officer of the Society, having 

 discharged the duties of his office to the perfect satisfaction of the 

 Council, they have resolved that a gratuity of £20 be presented to 

 him as an expression of the sense they entertain of the zeal and 

 diligence with which he has carried on the duties of his office during 

 the period of seven years and a half. 



In conclusion, they have to announce that they have awarded the 

 Wollaston Palladium Medal for the present year to Dr. Ami Boue, 

 for the zeal, intelligence and perseverance with which he has devoted 

 himself, both in the field and in the study, to the attainment and dif- 

 fusion of geological knowledge during the last thirty years ; for his 

 valuable and original investigations in Scotland, the south of France, 

 Italy, the mountain regions of Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Switzerland 

 and the Tyrol, Austria, Illyria, Hungary, Transylvania, &c. ; for his 

 scientific researches in European Turkey ; for his industry in col- 

 lecting materials and his skill in arranging them, as exemplified in 

 his geological maps, particularly those of Europe and the World, 

 and in numerous other publications, all tending to facilitate the study 

 and advance the progress of geology and its kindred sciences ; and 

 that they have awarded the balance of the proceeds of the Dona- 

 tion Fund for the present year, amounting to £30, to M. Alcide 

 d'Orbigny, to assist him in the publication of his palseontological 

 works now in progress. 



Report of the Museum and Library Committee. 



British Collection. 



The British part of the collection is in course of arrangement by 

 Mr, Sowerby ; the Silurian section is completed, and the Devonian 

 and Carboniferous nearly so. The valuable collection of Mr. Hennah 

 has been incorporated with this part of the series ; the work is ne- 

 cessarily one of labour and time, and the Committee beg to express 

 their satisfaction at the progress made by the Curator. 



They recommend that such original types of published species as 

 are in possession of the Society, should be distinguished by an ap- 



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