il ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 
The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. XXY. of the 
Quarterly Journal, and the publication of the first part of 
Vol. XXVI. 
The Council have also to announce the publication of the new 
Edition of Mr. Ormerod’s Index to the various publications of the 
Society, which is brought down to the end of Vol. XXIV. of the 
Quarterly Journal. The delay in the production of this work is due 
to the detection of certain errors, mostly uncorrected misprints in 
the first edition of the Index, which rendered the collation of all the 
references necessary. 
The Council have awarded the Wollaston Medal to M. G. P. 
Deshayes, Professor of Natural History in the Musée d Histoire 
Naturelle, Paris, in testimony of appreciation of his valuable palie- 
ontological labours, especially his recently completed magnificent 
work on the Invertebrate Fossils of the Paris basin. 
The Balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund has been 
awarded to M. Marie Rouault, Directeur Conservateur du Musée 
Géologique de Rennes, in aid of those valuable researches upon the 
Paleontology of the Silurian and Devonian rocks of Brittany which 
he has already carried on for years with most important results, 
notwithstanding the pressure of great difficulties. 
Report of the Library and Museum Comnuttee, 1869-1870. 
Lnbrary. 
The Standing Library-Committee have continued from time to 
time to make additions to the Library by the purchase of such books 
as they thought would prove useful to the Fellows; and amongst 
these the following valuable works may be quoted :— 
Schimper’s ‘ Traité de Paléontologie Végétale, the first volume, 
with a folio Atlas of 50 Plates ; the ‘ Histoire Naturelle des Coral- 
liaires,’ by MM. Milne-Edwards and Haime, in 3 volumes, and the 
‘ Histoire Naturelle des Echinodermes,’ by MM. Dujardin and Hupé, 
forming part of the ‘Suites a Buffon;’ Heer’s ‘Miocene Baltische 
Flora ;’ Ooster’s ‘Protozoe Helvetica,’ Parts 1 and 2; Ooster’s 
© Corallien de Wimmis ;’ Dumortier’s ‘Etudes paléontologiques sur 
les Dépots Jurassiques du Bassin du Rhone;’ and the ‘ Voyage 
Géologique dans les Républiques de Guatemala et de Salvador,’ by 
MM. A. Dollfus and E. Mont-Serrat ; also the continuations of the 
following important publications : Kichwald’s ‘Lethea Rossica,’ 
Quenstedt’s ‘ Petrefactenkunde Deutschlands, the ‘Paleontogra- 
pliica,’ the ‘ Paléontologie Francaise, and Alph. Milne-Edwards’s 
‘ Recherches Anatomiques et Paléontologiques pour servir 4 l’Histoire 
des Oiseaux Fossiles de la France.’ 
A great number of valuable donations have been made to the 
Library during the past year, and these include, besides periodicals 
