PROCEEDINGS 
AT THE 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 
18ra FEBRUARY, 1870. 
AWARD OF THE WoLLAstTon MEDAL. 
Tue Reports of the Council and of the Committees and Auditors 
having been read, the President, Professor Huxtry, LL.D., F.R.S., 
handed the Wollaston Gold Medal to Joun Evans, Esq., F.R.S., for 
transmission to M. G. P. DusHayzs, addressing him as follows :— 
I request you to transmit the Wollaston Medal for this year to 
M. Deshayes as an expression on the part of the Geological Society 
of the high estimation in which his services to Paleontology and 
Geology, especially in regard to the classification of the Tertiary 
formation, are held by the geologists of this country. 
Six years ago the Council of this Society demonstrated the in- 
terest which it took in M. Deshayes’s valuable investigations by 
awarding him the Donation-fund. Now that those researches, 
commenced just fifty years ago, are completed, and the labours of a 
life devoted to science are crowned by the publication of five great 
volumes containing descriptions and figures of all the Mollusca of 
the Paris basin, it has seemed to the Council a fitting opportunity 
for bestowing the highest honour at its disposal upon the pupil, 
editor, and continuator of Lamarck, and the worthy successor of 
his great master in the Chair of Natural History in the Muséum 
d'Histoire Naturelle. 
Mr. Eyans read the following reply on behalf of Prof. Ansrep, 
F.R.S., the Foreign Secretary of the Society, who was unavoidably 
absent :— 
I have the honour to acknowledge, on the part of M. Deshayes, 
the award of the Wollaston Medal; and in forwarding to him this 
mark of the estimation in which his labours are held among English 
geologists, I will not fail to communicate the observations you, Sir, 
as representing the Society, have thought fit to express. 
It is much to be regretted that M. Deshayes is not present in 
person to receive this Medal, and assure you of the extent to which 
he appreciates it. On three occasions, the first no less than thirty- 
four years ago, he received the award of the proceeds of the Wollaston 
Donation-fund to assist him in those long-continued researches of 
which we have lately received the completion, in the publication of 
the last volume of the work with which his name will always be 
connected. Placed in a district rich in an extraordinary degree in 
fossils of one geological period, he has devoted himself to the study 
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