The Council have also to announce that Dr. C. F. Fischer of Auckland, New Zealand, presented to the Society the remainder of the copies (in all 291) of a translation made by him of Messrs. Hochstetter and Petermann's 'Geology of New Zealand,' accompanied by an atlas of six maps. The Council decided to sell these books to' the Fellows at a low price.
The Council have awarded the Wollaston Medal to Prof. A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c, in recognition of his valuable services to physical and stratigraphical geology, and with especial reference to his numerous and original geological essays relating to Wales and the adjacent counties, and his surveys, of that district.
The Balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund has been awarded to Robert Etheridge, Esq., F.G.S., to aid him in prosecuting his work on the Fossils of the British Islands, stratigraphically arranged.
The Council have the gratification of reporting that an Appeal against the Assessment of Parochial Rates was on the 13th of this month decided by the proper Tribunal in favour of the Society, by which their total exemption from such imposts has been established. Report of the Library and Museum Committee, 1870-71.
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 those purchased since the last Anniversary Meeting, the following important works may be cited : —
Berendt's ' Geologie des Kurischen HafFes und seiner Umgebung ;' Blanford's ' Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia ;' C. F. Naumann's ' Elemente der Mineralogie ;' Landgrebe's ' Mineralogie der Vulcane;' Percy's 'Metallurgy of Lead;' Veith's ' Deutsches Bergworterbuch ;' Issel's ' Malacologia del Mar Rosso ;' Zittel's ' Palaeontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Konigl. Bayerischen Staates;' Mayr's 'Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins ;' Weiss's ' Fossile Flora der jungsten Steinkohlenformation und des Rothliegenden im Saar-Rhein-Gebiete ;' and continuations of Pictet's 'Materiaux pour la Paleontologie Suisse;' Schimper's 'Paleontologie Vegetale ;' Milne-Edwards's ' Recherches Anatomiques et Paleontologiques pour servir a l'Histoire des Oiseaux fossiles de la France;' Ooster's ' Protozoe Helvetica;' Quenstedt's ' Petrefactenkunde Deutschlands ;' the ' Palaeontographica;' the 'Paleontologie Francaise;' and Reeve's 'Conchologia Iconica.' The cost of books purchased by the Society during the past year was £37 7s. lld., and of binding £33 13s. 7d.
A great number of valuable books have been presented to the Society's Library during the past year, including, besides periodicals and the publications of learned Societies, many separate works of importance, such as:—
' Gaea Norvegica,' Parts 1-3 (1838-50), from the Royal Norwe-
