﻿X PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I905,. 



The alterations in the Bye-Laws, necessitated by the new 

 regulations which the Council at the time of the last Annual 

 Report had in view (in regard both to the publication of papers 

 and to the admission of Visitors to Meetings), were agreed to, at a 

 Special General Meeting summoned for the purpose of considering- 

 such alterations. The regulations made by the Council in accord- 

 ance with the revised Bye-Laws as to Visitors have been published 

 in the Proceedings, and also certain regulations as to Exhibits at 

 Meetings. The appearance of the names of Members of the 

 Standing Publication-Committee, on the inside of the cover of each 

 number of the Quarterly Journal, is an indication of the change 

 that has been made in the method of selecting papers for publication. 



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

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



Mr. C. Davies Sherborn is making rapid progress with his manu- 

 script Card-Catalogue of the Library, so rapid indeed that more 

 cabinets have had to be purchased for the purpose of accommodating 

 the Catalogue than could have been foreseen at the time when the 

 Estimates for 1904 were framed. Mr. Sherborn has also undertaken 

 to continue during the current year the preparation of the catalogue- 

 slips for the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



The approaching centenary of the foundation of the Society 

 suggested to Mr. H. B. Woodward the propriety of celebrating the 

 event by the publication of a Record which should embody the 

 history of the Society. He accordingly placed before the Council a 

 sketch of the principal features of the proposed Record, and a small 

 Committee, of which he is a member, has been appointed to carry 

 out the scheme. There is every reason to hope that the work will 

 be completed by the centenary year 1907. 



In November, a further sum of <£91 8s. 7d. was received from 

 the executors of the late Sir Joseph Prestwich, making the total 

 amount received on account of his bequest to the Society .£709 2s. 10c?., 

 after deduction of legacy-duty. This additional sum has been 

 invested in India 3 per cent. Stock, on account of the Prestwich 

 Trust Fund. 



The second Award from the Daniel- Pidgeon Trust-Fund was 

 made, on May 11th, 1904, to Mr. Linsdall Richardson, who proposed 

 to extend his researches among the Rhsetic and Inferior Oolite 

 formations, and to conduct excavations at Berrow Hill, near 

 Upton-on- Severn. 



The following Awards of Medals and Funds have also been made 

 by the Council : — 



" The Wollaston Medal is awarded to Dr. J. J. Harris Teall, F.R.S., 

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

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

 butions to the science of Petrology in general, more especially to 

 our knowledge of the structure and composition of the rocks of the 

 British Islands. 



The Murchison Medal, together with a Sum of Ten Guineas 

 from the Murchison Geological Fund, is awarded to Mr. Edward 



