willing that "Abstracts" of papers not necessarily of that character 

 should, subject in every case to their sanction, be occasionally 

 admitted, when such papers are of especial value. 



The Council have decided that the Association shall be repre- 

 sented this year at the annual meeting of the British Association, 

 with several important Committees of which learned body, the 

 co-operation of local Societies is cordially invited. The Delegate's 

 Report will be printed in the next number. 



There is reason to regret that there has not been, hitherto, that 

 demand for the Publications of Societies which exchange Trans- 

 actions with us, as would encourage any large development of the 

 exchange system at present. The printed list in the next No. will 

 show that the Association possesses a fair number of more or less 

 valuable works (especially the splendid Publications of the United 

 States Geological Survey, and the Memoirs of the Geological 

 Survey of Great Britain), which the Secretary would be only too 

 glad to distribute among Societies requiring them. 



In conclusion, the Council can only express the hope that the 

 present year may prove an auspicious one in the interests of the 

 Association, and of the Societies affiliated to it, which it desires to 

 assist in every way possible, and with which it wishes to be more 

 closely and thoroughly identified in the future than it may have been 

 in the past. The Association cannot, however, do the full work it 

 was intended to do, without the necessary funds ; and the Council 

 now appeal to each individual Member to do what he can for it, 

 chiefly by making better known, and thus increasing the sale of the 

 Transactions, and by trying to augment the list of its Associate 

 Members not belonging to any Society. They trust it will thus, 

 in time, be enabled to accomplish the work which its lamented 

 founder so untiringly laboured that it might be enabled to effect, 

 viz.— to encourage and assist local scientific and literary research, 

 and also to help to diffuse the love of these pursuits among the 

 people of the two counties over which its influence extends. 



No. of Members on Copies taken 



1. ofNo. X. Terms 



So Free to Associate Members 



40 To Members at l/- 



66 Free to Gentlemen ; Ladies at i/- 



7 To Members at i/- 



iio Free to Members 



25 To Members at i/- 



7 To Members at i/- 



9 To Members at i/- 



150 Free to Members 



12 Members at l/- 



24 At i/- 



530 



