X PKOCEEDLNGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I903,. 



in connexion with the Museum Catalogue will fall within the 

 accounts of the present year. 



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

 the commencement of Vol. LIX of the Society's Quarterly Journal. 



The Catalogue of type- and other important specimens in the 

 Society's Museum, based on Mr. Sherborn 's manuscript catalogue, 

 edited and prepared for publication by the Rev. J. F. Blake, has 

 now been issued. The Council are confident that the Fellows will 

 concur with them in the opinion that the Society is much indebted 

 to Prof. Blake for so generously placing his time and services at 

 the disposal of the Society in bringing out this most valuable work. 

 Both he and Mr. Sherborn are to be congratulated on the fruit of 

 their labours being at length made accessible to the public. The 

 information embodied in the Catalogue will facilitate the discussion 

 of certain suggestions which have been made relative to the future 

 of the collections in the Society's Museum. 



The manuscript Card-Catalogue of the Library (to which reference 

 was made in the previous Annual Report) has been commenced by 

 Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, F.G.S., and considerable progress has been 

 made with it. 



Mr. Sherborn has also undertaken to continue during the current 

 j T ear the preparation and editing of the catalogue-slips for the 

 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



On the occasion of the Coronation of Their Majesties, The King 

 and Queen, the Society joined with the other Scientific Societies 

 having apartments in Burlington House in a scheme for the 

 decoration and illumination of the front of the building, in honour 

 of that auspicious event and of the happy restoration of His Majesty 

 to health. 



The Society shared in the worldwide sympathy felt for the 

 sufferers from the calamitous eruptions in St. Vincent and Mar- 

 tinique ; and the President and Council, on behalf of themselves 

 and the Fellows, forwarded letters to the Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies and to the French Minister of the Colonies, giving due 

 expression to this sympathy. These letters were courteously 

 acknowledged. 



The following Awards of Medals and Funds have been made by 

 the Council : — 



The Wollaston Medal is awarded to Geheimrath Prof. Dr. 

 Heinrich Bosenbusch, in recognition of the value of his researches 

 concerning the Mineral Structure of the Earth, and more particularly 

 of his investigations of the Microscopic Structure and Mineralogical 

 Composition of the Igneous Bocks and Crystalline Schists. 



The Murchison Medal, together with a sum of Fifteen Guineas 

 from the Murchison Geological Fund, is awarded to Dr. Charles 

 Callaway, in recognition of his valuable contributions to our know- 

 ledge of the Cambrian and Archaean rocks of Shropshire, the 

 Malverns, and the Scottish Highlands. 



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

 from the Lyell Geological Fund, is awarded to Mr. Frederick "William 

 Budler, in recognition of his important services to Geological Science 



