U ANIOYEESAEY MEETING. 



to the credit of income for 1867 has also been diminished by the 

 transfer from income to capital of the money advanced on account 

 of the Beqnest Pund in previous years. 



The funded property of the Society has been increased by the 

 investment of £300 in Consols, and now reaches the sum of .£4860. 



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

 the Quarterly Journal, includiug a Supplementary IS'umber published 

 in December, and the publication of the first part of Yol. XXIY. 



They have also to announce the appointment of Mr. W. 'W. 

 Leighton to the office of Clerk, rendered vacant by the resignation 

 of Mr. E, Teuton ; and of Mr. "W. Stephen Mitchell and Mr. Sydney 

 B. J. Skertchly as Museum and Library Assistants, in the room of 

 Mr. E. Tate and Mr. Horace Woodward, who resigned their respective 

 posts last September. 



The Council have awarded the Wollaston Medal to Professor Carl 

 P. Waumann of Leipzig, in recognition of his labours, extending over 

 nearly half a century, in the departments of Geology, Mineralogy, 

 and CrystaUogTa]Dhy, and especially for the admirable series of Geo- 

 logical Surveys of Saxony and adjoining countries, executed by him- 

 self and his coadjutors between the years 1836 and 1843, and for 

 the great standard work on Geology (' Lehrbuch der Geognosie '), 

 which, with the excellent courses of lectures delivered by him at 

 Preiburg and at Leipzig, has exercised a powerful influence on the 

 education of the newer generation of continental geologists. 



The balance of the proceeds of the WoUaston Fund has been 

 awarded to M. J. Bosquet, of Maestricht, in aid of the valuable 

 researches on the Tertiary and Cretaceous Mollusca, Entomostraca, 

 and other fossils of Holland and Belgium, on which he has been so 

 long and successfully engaged. 



Beport of the Library and Museum Committee, 1867-68. 

 The Museum. 



The additions made to the Foreign portion of the Society's Museum 

 during the past year include a collection of fossils from the Oxfordian 

 and Callovian strata of Poland, presented by M. Zeuschner ; a col- 

 lection of rocks, fossils, and specimens of coal from the Eastern 

 Hemisphere, presented by Dr. C. Collingwood, F.L.S. ; a collection 

 of fossil Corals from Trinidad, presented by Dr. P. Martin Duncan, 

 Sec. G.S. ; a collection of Devonian fossils from the Ehenish Pro- 

 vinces, presented by the late W. J. Hamilton, Esq., F.E.S., F.G.S. ; 

 and single specimens from St. Helena, presented by J. H. Blofeld, 

 Esq., F.G.S. ; as well as from the Sewalik Hills, presented by Capt. 

 F. G. S. Parker, F.G.S. ; and from Sombrero, presented by H. W* 

 Bristow, Esq., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



Among the specimens in the British portion of the Museum, which 

 have been received duriug the year, are a collection of rocks from 

 Bala, presented by H. T. Eichardson, Esq. ; and a collection of fossils 

 from the Lingula Flags and Tremadoc Slates, presented by T. Ash, 



