ABSTRACTS OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
No. 364. ] [Session 1878-79. 
Annual General Meeting. 
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February 21, 1879.—H. C. Sorby, Esq., F.R.S., 
President, in the Chair. 
The SxcrErarres read the Reports of the Council and of the 
Library and Museum Committee for the year 1878, in which it was 
stated that, owing no doubt chiefly to the widespread depression in 
commercial affairs, the number of Fellows elected during the year 
was unusually low ; and there had been a corresponding, though pro- 
bably temporary falling off in the income of the Society. The Report, 
however, announced the receipt of a bequest of £1000 under the will 
of the late Sydney Ellis, Esq., which had been invested in Reduced 
8 Per Cent. Stock for the benefit of the Society. The Report further 
mentioned the awards of the various Medals and the proceeds of the 
Funds, and stated that the proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund 
would be devoted to the purchase of a new microscope, and the im- 
provement of the instrument already in the possession of the Society. 
In presenting the Wollaston Gold Medal to Prof. Ramsay for 
transmission to Prof. Bernarp Srupzer, F.M.G.S., the Presipenr 
addressed him as follows :— 
Proressorn RamMsay,— 
In forwarding the Wollaston Medal to Bernard Studer, I trust that 
you will tell him with what unanimity the Council awarded it to 
him as a token of their high esteem for his long and arduous ser- 
vices in the eause of science, commencing upwards of sixty years ago, 
and continued uninterruptedly down to the present time. We must, 
I think, regard him as the father of Swiss geology, and to him we 
are greatly indebted for our present knowledge of the structure of 
his native country, to which his publications have been mainly, 
though not exclusively devoted. I may especially refer to his 
earlier and later works on the geology of Switzerland and the ad- 
joining countries, and to his map of Switzerland, which, though 
published twenty-seven years ago, is still the best we possess. In 
fact, Studer’s name is so indissolubly associated with that country, 
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