xi PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL sociETY. [May 1902, 
(¢) They consider that the Report of the Council should only be taken 
as read when a motion to that effect 1s carried nemine contradicente. 
(f) They consider that it is within the province of any Fellew to ask at 
the Annual General Meeting for a separate vote on any item of the 
Estimates, subject to the approval of the Chairman. 
(g) They do not consider it desirable that the scope of the Annual 
General Meeting should be enlarged so as to encroach upon the functions 
of Special General Meetings. ‘They desire to call attention to the fact 
that free comment on the affairs of the Society is provided for under Bye- 
Laws, Section X, Article 20, and to recommend that the usual practice 
should be followed in this respect. 
The late Mr. Daniel Pidgeon, F.G.8., by his will dated March 
17th, 1898, gave expression to the following wishes, leaving their 
fulfilment to the discretion of Mrs. Pidgeon :— 
‘First that she will give or bequeath One Thousand Pounds to the Council 
of the Geological Society of London in trust for the creation of an Annual 
Grant derivable from the interest on said One Thousand Pounds to be used at 
the discretion of said Council in whatever way may in their opinion best pro- 
mote Geological Original Research, their Grantees being in all cases not more 
than 28 years of age.’ 
The testator died on March 13th, 1900, and Mrs. Pidgeon, having 
decided on giving immediate effect to her husband’s wishes, exe- 
cuted a Deed on January 6th of the present year, establishing 
a Trust to be known as the Daniel Pidgeon Fund, and the sum of 
One Thousand Pounds was placed by her solicitors at the Society’s 
disposal for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Trust. 
The Council have drawn up a provisional scheme for the adminis- 
tration of the aforesaid Trust, the particulars of which will be 
announced in due course. 
Attention having been drawn to the imperfection of the present 
method of reporting the Discussions on papers read before the 
Society, the Council have had the subject under their consideration, 
and it is hoped that by giving to the Secretaries fuller discretion 
a better result may be obtained. For the future, the Secretaries 
are empowered to report the remarks of a Fellow who does not 
send in a written abstract, although such report is to be sub- 
mitted to him for approval before publication. 
The following Awards of Medals and Funds have been made by 
the Council :— 
The Wollaston Medal is awarded to Dr. Friedrich Schmidt, in 
recognition of the value of his researches concerning the miuveral 
structure of the earth, and more particularly for his contributions 
to our knowledge of the Cambrian and Silurian Rocks and Fossils 
of Esthonia and Livonia and his geological exploration of Siberia. 
The Murchison Medal, together with a sum of Ten Guineas from 
the Murchison Geological Fund, is awarded to Mr. Frederic William 
Harmer, in recognition of his numerous and valuable papers on the 
Glacial and Pliocene Deposits of East Anglia. 
This year it has been decided +o award two Lyell Medals. 
One of these Medals, together with a sum of Twenty-five Pounds 
