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arrears of publications and binding of books. As a step towards 

 meeting these and other prospective increasing liabilities, the Council 

 submitted to the Fellows, at a Special General Meeting, held on 

 June 25th, 1919, alterations in the Bye-Laws raising the Animal 

 Contribution in the case of all Fellows elected after November 1st 

 of that year to Three Guineas, and raising the Composition Fee in 

 the case of such Fellows to Fifty Guineas. The alterations were 

 carried with one dissentient. 



As regards the publications of the Society, the Council has 

 to announce the completion of Vol. LXXIY of the Quarterly 

 Journal (1918) and the commencement of Vol. LXXV (1919). 



During the past year the Apartments of the Society have been 

 used for General and for Council Meetings by the Institution of 

 Mining Engineers, the Institution of Mining & Metallurgy, 

 the Institution of Water Engineers, the Institution of Municipal 

 & County Engineers, the Society of Engineers, the Mineralogical 

 Society, the Pakeontographical Society, the Kay Society, the Royal 

 Anthropological Institute, the Royal Meteorological Society, and 

 the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. 



Sir Aubrey Strahan and Prof. W. G. Fearnsides have continued 

 to act during the year as our representatives on the Conjoint 

 Board of Scientific Societies. 



On March 26th, 1919, a Special General Meeting was held, at 

 which the resolution of the Council affirming the desirability of 

 admitting Women as Fellows of the Society was carried by 

 55 votes to 12. Fourteen have so far availed themselves of the 

 opportunity thus afforded. 



The suggestion of the Council to revert to the hour of 8 p.m. 

 for the Ordinary Meetings was considered by the Fellows at the 

 Special General Meeting held on June 25th, but the majority 

 present decided to maintain the hour of meeting at 5.30 p.m. 



No Award was made from the Daniel-Pidgeon Trust Fund 

 in 1919, no candidate having been nominated. 



The following Awards of Medals and Funds have been made : — 



The Wollaston Medal is awarded to Prof. Gerard Jakob De 

 Geer, in recognition of his researches concerning the ' mineral 

 structure of the Earth,' more especially in connexion with the 

 geology of Scandinavia and Spitsbergen. 



The Murchison Medal, together with the sum of Ten Guineas 

 from the Murchison Geological Fund, is awarded to Ethel Mary 

 Shakespeai*, D.Sc, in recognition of the value of her palseonto- 

 logical researches on the Graptolitoidea and of her contributions 

 to the stratigraphy of the Older Paheozoic rocks. 



The Lyell Medal, together with the sum of Twenty-Five Pounds, 

 is awarded to Mr. Edward Greenly, as a mark of appreciation of 

 the value of the geological work carried out by him in the Island 

 of Anglesey. 



The Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund is 

 awarded to Mr. William Bernard Robinson King, in recognition 

 of the value of his geological activities at General Headquarters in 



