lO PEOCEEBINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



duced in all 7 vacancies in the list of Eoreign Correspondents, 5 of 

 which were filled up during the year. Thus at the close of the 

 year 1884, the list of Foreign Members was complete, and there 

 were 2 vacancies in that of the Foreign Correspondents of the 

 Society. 



The total Eeceipts on account of Income for the year 1884 were 

 only .£2527 Is. Sd. being .£87 9s. 5d. less than the estimated 

 Income for the year. The total Expenditure, on the other hand, 

 amounted to .£2699 17s. 6d., or £109 13s. more than the estimated 

 Expenditure for the year. The excess of the Expenditure over the 

 Income of the year was therefore £172 15s. 10c?. 



Out of the Balance in the Society's hands at the beginning of 

 1884, the Council have invested the sum of £100 in the purchase of 

 £99 Os. 2d. Consols. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Yol. XL. and the 

 commencement of Yol. XLI. of the Society's Quarterly Journal. 



The Council have also to announce that a valuable picture of the 

 Hot Springs of Gardiner's Eiver, Yellowstone Park, painted on the 

 spot by T. Moran, Esq., has been kindly presented to the Society by 

 that gentleman and A. G. Eenshaw, Esq., E.G.S. 



The Council have awarded the WoUaston Medal to George Busk, 

 Esq., E.R.S., E.G.S., in recognition of the valuable services he has 

 rendered to Geological Science by his long-continued researches 

 among the Eecent and Fossil Polyzoa, and the Mammalia of the 

 Post-Tertiary deposits. 



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

 proceeds of the Fund, has been awarded to Dr. Ferdinand Eomer, 

 For. Memb. G.S., in testimony of appreciation of his researches in 

 Palaeontology and Stratigraphical Geology, especially among the 

 rocks of Palaeozoic age, in both the Old and the New World. 



The Lyell Medal, with the sum of Forty Pounds from the proceeds 

 of the Fund, has been awarded to Professor H. G. Seeley, F.E.S., 

 F.G.S., in recognition of his numerous and valuable contributions 

 to Yertebrate Palaeontology and General Geology, and to aid him in 

 the further prosecution of his researches. 



The Bigsby Medal has been awarded to M. Alphonse Eenard, 

 For. Corr. G.S., in token of appreciation of the great value of his 

 petrographical researches among the older formations of Belgium, 

 and his studies of the nature and origin of Deep-sea Deposits. 



The balance of the proceeds of the WoUaston Donation Fund has 

 been awarded to Dr. Charles CaUaway, F.G.S., in recognition of the 

 value of his investigations among the Archaean rocks, and to aid 

 him in the further prosecution of his researches. 



The balance of the proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund 

 has been awarded to Horace B. Woodward, Esq., F.G.S., in testimony 

 of appreciation of his critical study of the Geology of England and 

 Wales, and to aid him in completing his accurate digest of informa- 

 tion upon the subject. 



The balance of the proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund has been 

 awarded to A. J. Jukes-Browne, Esq., F.G.S., in recognition of the 



