ANNUAL KEPOET. 9 



The total Receipts on account of Income for the year 1885 

 were =£2663 6s. Id., being £82 Os. Id. more than the estimated 

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

 was only £2315 7s. lid., or X264 85. Id. less than the estimated 

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

 Expenditure of the year was £347 18s. 2d. 



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

 the commencement of Vol. XLII. of the Society's Quarterly Journal. 



The Council have also to announce that a Portrait by the late 

 H. W. Pickersgill, E.A., of the late Sir Henry T. De la Beche has 

 been kindly presented to the Society by the President. 



The Council have awarded the Woliaston Medal to Professor A. 

 L. 0. Des Cloizeaux, of Paris, Member of the Institute of France, 

 Eor.M.G.S., in recognition of the value of his Miner alogical re- 

 searches, especially in connexion with the Crystallographic and 

 Optical Characters of Minerals, which, by supplying a secure foun- 

 dation to Petrology, have contributed so largely to the advance of 

 Geological Science. 



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

 proceeds of the Pund, has been awarded to William Whitaker, 

 Esq., B.A., E.G.S., in testimony of appreciation of the services which 

 he has rendered to Geology, especially by his original researches 

 among the Cretaceous and Tertiary Rocks of the South-east of 

 England, and by his work in connexion with the Bibliography of 

 the Science. 



The Lyell Medal, with the sum of Twenty Guineas from the proceeds 

 of the Eund, has been awarded to William Pengelly, Esq., E.R.S., 

 F.G.S., in recognition of the value of his researches in connexion 

 with the Geology of Devonshire, and especially with regard to the 

 early history of Man in that region. 



The balance of the proceeds of the WoUaston Donation Fund has 

 been awarded to John Starkie Gardner, Esq., F.G.S., as a mark of 

 appreciation of his investigations upon the Tertiary Fossil Floras of 

 this country, and to assist him in the further prosecution thereof. 



The balance of the proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund 

 has been awarded to Clement Reid, Esq., F.G.S., in recognition of 

 the value of his researches among the Pliocene and Glacial Deposits 

 of East Anglia, and to aid him in further inquiries of a like kind. 



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

 awarded to Daniel Mackintosh, Esq., F.G.S., in testimony of appre- 

 ciation of his extensive and long-continued studies of the Glacial 

 and other Superficial Deposits of the north-west of England, and to 

 assist him in further investigations. 



The sum of Twenty Guineas from the Proceeds of the Barlow- 

 Jameson Fund has been awarded to Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 

 F.G.S., in recognition of the value of his researches upon the Vol- 

 canic and Seismic Phenomena of Southern Italy, and to aid him in 

 still carrying on his inquiries. 



