The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. XXV. 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 Musee d'Histoiie Naturelle, Paris, in testimony of appreciation of his valuable pa]a3- 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 Bouault, Directeur Conservateur du Musee Geologique de Pennes, in aid of those valuable researches upon the Pala3ontology 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 Committee, 1869-1870. Library. 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 ' Traite de Paleontologie Vegetale,' 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 Xaturelle cles Echinodermes,' by MM. Dujardin and Hupe, forming part of the ' Suites a Buffon ; ' Heer's ' Miocene Baltische Flora ; ' Ooster's ' Protozoe Helvetica,' Parts 1 and 2 ; Oosters ' Cor allien de Wimmis ; ' Dumortier's ' Etudes paleontologiques sur les Depots Jurassiques du Bassin du Phone ; ' and the ' Voyage Geologique dans les Bepubliques de Guatemala et de Salvador,' by MM. A. Dollfus and E. Mont-Serrat ; also the continuations of the following important publications : Eichwald's ' Lethoea Possica,' Quenstedt's ' Petrefactenkunde Deutschlands,' the ' Palaeontogra- phica,' the 'Paleontologie Francaise,' and Alph. Milne-Edwards's ' Pecherches Anatomiques et Paleontologiques pour servir h 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
