Dr Ramsay Traquair,—The Neill prize for the triennial period 1874-77 has been awarded to you by the Council of this Society, nominally for your paper on the structures and affinities of Tristichopterus alatus (Egerton), communicated to this Society within the required period, and published in the 27th volume of the Transactions of the Society. The Council have, however, also taken into account, as they are entitled to do by the conditions of the prize, the many contributions which you have made during some years past to the knowledge of the structure of recent and fossil fishes.