8 PEOCEEDIIsrGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



2 were elected, leaving again one vacancy in the List of Foreign 

 Members at the end of the year. 



During the same period 1 Foreign Correspondent died, and 4 

 were elected, but there was still one vacancy in the List of Foreign 

 Correspondents at the end of 1891. 



Briefly stated, the Society's Income and Expenditure during the 

 past year were as follows : — 



The total Eeceipts on account of Income amounted to 

 .£2845 9s. 8c^., being <£68 35. 4:d. more than the estimated Income 

 for 1891. The Expenditure during that year, leaving out of account 

 the sum of £516 2s. 3d. expended in the purchase of <£400 London 

 and South Western Eailway 4°/^ Preference Stock, was £2476 5s. 7d., 

 being £272 4s. 5d. less than the estimate. The excess of Eeceipts 

 over Expenditure in 1891 was therefore £369 4s. Id. 



The Council now record the completion of Volume XLYIL, and 

 the commencement of Yolume XLYIII. of the Society's Quarterly 

 Journal. It should be mentioned in this place that the task of 

 editing the first number of Yol. XLYII. was undertaken by Pro- 

 fessor T. Eupert Jones, F.E.S. 



During the year under review the Society has suffered great 

 losses by the death of several of its most distinguished Fellows, two 

 of whom had filled the Presidential Chair with conspicuous ability. 



It seems appropriate that this opportunity should be taken of 

 recording the decease of an old and trusted servant of the Society, 

 Mr. Isaac Charlton, the former House Steward. He had retired 

 only last June on the completion of his fifty years of service. 



The Council have made the following awards of medals and 

 memorial funds : — 



The WoUaston Medal has been awarded to Baron Ferdinand von 

 Eichthofen, in recognition of his important researches in and 

 elaborate descriptions of the geology of China, North America, &c. 



The Murchison Medal, with a sum of ten guineas from the 

 proceeds of the Fund, has been awarded to Professor A. H. Green, 

 F.E.S., in recognition of his valuable investigations concerning the 

 geology of the Yorkshire Coalfield and adjoining districts, and in 

 numerous other areas. 



The Lyell Medal, with £25 from the proceeds of the Fund, has 

 been awarded to Mr. Geo. H. Morton, F.G.S., in acknowledgment 

 of his laborious and continuous researches, during a period of over 

 forty years, amongst the rocks of the neighbourhood of Liverpool, 

 North Wales, and the adjoining counties. 



The balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund has 

 been awarded to Mr. Orville A. Derby, F.G.S., in token of appre- 

 ciation of his researches in the geology and mineralogy of Brazil. 



The balance of the proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund 

 has been awarded to Mr. Beeby Thompson, F.G.S., in recognition 

 of his labours and observations concerning the geology and palaeon- 

 tology of the Lias of Northamptonshire. 



One moiety of the balance of the proceeds of the Lyell Geological 

 Fund has been awarded to Mr. J. W. Gregory, F.G.S., in token of 



