part 1] ANNUAL REPORT. XV 



the seriousness of this situation, contemplates the raising of a 

 voluntary fund among the Fellows in order to clear oft: these 

 arrears. 



The facts regarding the publication of the Lists of Geological 

 Literature are set forth in the Report of the Library Committee. 



The Apartments of this Society have been used for General 

 Meetings and for Council or Committee Meetings during the past 

 year by the Institution of Mining Engineers, the Institution of 

 Mining & Metallurgy, the Institution of Water Engineers, the 

 .Society of Engineers, the Mineralogical Society, the Paheon to- 

 graphical Society, the Kay Society, the Persia Society, the Geolo- 

 gists' Association, and the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies. 



Under the will of the late Charles Papps Gloyne, the Society 

 received during the } r ear a sum which has been invested in 

 £1676 17s. Qd. 3| per cent. Conversion Loan (1961), for the 

 purpose of establishing a Trust Fund, to be known as the Gloyne 

 Outdoor Geological Research Fund. The regulations determining 

 the appropriation of the income of this Fund have been drawn up 

 in conformity with counsel's opinion, and an announcement will 

 be issued in due course, inviting suggestions for the use of the fund. 



Sir Aubrey Strahan and Mr. R. D. Oldham (afterwards re- 

 placed by Prof. A. C. Seward) acted as the Society's representa- 

 tives on the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies. 



The Society was represented at the Brussels International Geo- 

 logical Congress by Dr. J. W. Evans and Dr. J. S. Flett ; at the 

 -Centenary Celebration of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society by 

 Prof. A. C. Seward ; at the 700th Anniversary of the University 

 •of Paclua by Mr. G. M. Trevelyan ; and at the 150th Anniversary 

 of the Ro} r al Academy of Belgium by Prof. Louis Dollo. 



Mr. W. Whitaker was nominated as Delegate to the Bourne- 

 mouth Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute, and Mr. G. W. 

 Lamplugh as Delegate to the Conference of Corresponding Societies 

 at the British Association Meeting in Hull. 



The Proceeds of the Daniel-Pidgeon Fund for 1922 were awarded 

 to Mr. Herbert Price Lewis, of Sheffield University, who originally 

 .proposed to carry out researches on the Structure of certain 

 Caninoid Corals occurring in the Carboniferous Limestone of 

 North Wales at horizons higher than their reputed range ; but he 

 has since asked to be allowed to change the object of his research 

 to the investigation of the distinction between the genera Ganinia 

 and Ga mp op hy Hum . 



Further, the following Awards of Medals and Funds have 

 been made : — 



The Wollaston Medal to Mr. William Whitaker, in recognition 

 of his long-continued researches concerning the mineral structure 

 of the Earth, especially in connexion with the water-supply and 

 underground geology of Surrey, Norfolk, and other parts of 

 England, and of his earlier work on the Tertiary strata of the 

 London and Hampshire Basins. 



