X PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I906, 



The total Expenditure during the same period amounted to 

 £3066 6s. 10d., being £129 10s. lOd. more than the estimated 

 Expenditure for the year, and X104 4s. lOd. in excess of the actual 

 Receipts. The three principal items in regard to which the Expen- 

 diture exceeded the sums provided in the Estimates were the 

 Quarterly Journal (excess £34 12s. 2d.), the Library (excess 

 £44 10s. 5d.), and Miscellaneous Printing (excess <£30 lis. 4d.). 



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

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



Mr. C. Davies Sherborn is making increasingly-rapid progress with 

 his manuscript Card-Catalogue of the Library, and it may now be 

 said that ' the end is in sight.' A considerable number of new 

 cabinets for the purpose of accommodating this Catalogue are 

 provided for in the Estimates for the current year. 



Mr. Sherborn having intimated his inability to undertake, after 

 the end of 1905, the preparation of the catalogue-slips for the 

 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, the Council ap- 

 pointed a Committee to review the part hitherto taken by the 

 Society in furnishing the slips for British Geology to the Central 

 Bureau, and that Committee have recommended the discontinuance 

 of the work under present conditions. The Committee have further 

 recommended that modifications be made in the Society's Record 

 of Geological Literature, so that all geological literature published 

 in Britain shall be included, and that slips from it shall be avail- 

 able for the purposes of the Central Bureau of the International 

 Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



The Committee engaged in the preparation of the Centenary 

 Record of the Society, initiated by Mr. Horace B. "Woodward, are 

 able to report that substantial progress towards the completion of 

 the work has been made during the past year. 



The lamented decease of Dr. W. T. Blanford, which took place 

 most unexpectedly towards the end of June last, deprived the 

 Council of the aid and advice of one who had for the last 21 years 

 (first as Secretary, from 1884 to 1888; then as President, from 1888 

 to 1890 ; and finally as Treasurer, from 1895 until his decease) 

 served the Society with unflagging devotion and zeal. In accordance 

 with the prescriptions of the Charter and Bye-Laws, a Special 

 General Meeting was held on November 22nd, 1905, at which 

 Mr. H. W. Monckton was elected Treasurer, and Mr. B. H. Tiddeman 

 a Member of the Council, to fill the vacancies thus created. 



The third Award from the Daniel Pidgeon Trust-Fund was 

 made, on May 10th, 1905, to Mr. Thomas Yipond Barker, B.A., who 

 proposed to investigate the deposition of crystals of minerals and 

 other substances in regular position on each other, with special 

 reference to such groups as those of calcite, barytes, aragonite, etc. 



The following Awards of Medals and Eunds have also been made 

 by the Council : — 



The Wollaston Medal is awarded to Dr. Henry Woodward, E.R.S., 

 in recognition of the value of his ' researches concerning the mineral 

 structure of the Earth,' and particularly of his valuable contri- 



