AKNTJAL TtEPORT. 



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The total Receipts on account of Income for the year 1886 

 were .£2669, being £117 Is. -id. more than the estimated Income 

 for the year. The total Expenditure, on the other haud, was only 

 £2278 14s. 3d., or £229 Is. 9d. less than the estimated Expenditure 

 for the year. The excess of the Income over the Expenditure of 

 the year was £390 os. 9c?. 



A sum of £250 12s. Qd. having been expended in the purchase of 

 .£250 reduced 3 per cent, stock, the balance at the disposal of the 

 Society at 31st December last amounted to £576 19s. Id. As the 

 Council have every reason to believe that the expenditure of the 

 present year will be well within the estimates, they think it may be 

 advisable in the course of the coming summer to make use of a part 

 of the above balance for the execution of necessary repairs, painting, 

 Ac., of the interior of the Society's House. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. XLII. of 

 the Society's Quarterly Journal, and the commencement of Vol. 



xmi. 



In consequence of the sudden death of the late Clerk, Mr. W. W. 

 Leighton, the Council were led to consider the organization of the 

 paid Officers of the Society, and they decided formally to combine 

 the office of Clerk with that of Assistant Secretary, giving him a 

 second Assistant, whose duties should be primarily those of a Clerk 

 in the Office, but with the proviso that he should assist in the work 

 of the Library when required to do so. After a careful consideration 

 of the testimonials of numerous applicants, the Council appointed 

 Mr. F. E. Brown to the vacant post, and the appointment was duly 

 confirmed by the Society at the Meeting of the 21st of April, 1886. 



The Council have awarded the AVollaston Medal to J. Whitaker 

 Hulke, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., in recognition of the importance to 

 Geological Science of his researches into the structure and affinities 

 of Fossil Reptilia, especially of the Dinosauria. 



The Murchison Medal, with the sum of Ten Guineas from the 

 Fund, has been awarded to the Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S., 

 as a mark of appreciation of his long-continued study of the 

 Stratigraphy of Central England, and of his important contributions 

 to the Science of Fossil Entomology. 



The Lyell Medal, with the sum of Twenty-five Pounds from the 

 proceeds of the Fund, has been awarded to Samuel Allport, Esq., 

 F.G.S., in recognition of the admirable work done by him as one of 

 the pioneers of the science of Microscopic Petrology. 



The Bigsby Medal has been awarded to Prof. Charles Lapworth, 

 LL.D., F.G.S., as a testimony to the value of his palaeontological 

 and stratigraphical researches, and particularly of the additions made 

 by him to our knowledge of the structure and distribution of Grap- 

 tolites, and of his investigation of the Lower Palaeozoic and Archaean 

 Rocks of Scotland. 



The balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund has 

 been awarded' to B. Peach, Esq., F.G.S., in token of appreciation 

 of his important contributions to the Palaeontology and Geology of 

 Scotland, and to aid him in future investigations. 



