2 SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
The CHAIRMAN having addressed the meeting in a highly 
appropriate speech, the following Report of the Committee 
was read by the Rev. W. R. Crotch, one of the Secretaries 
of the Society :— 
“Your Committee, in presenting their Sixth Annual Re- 
port, have great pleasure in announcing the accession of 
twenty-seven new members during the last year. As the 
efficiency of the Society not only depends on the zeal and 
ability of those who labour in the different fields of inves- 
tigation, but also on the amount of its funds, every increase 
in the number of subseribing members is a subject of con- 
gratulation; whilst the same consideration compels the 
committee to express their regret that the arrears into 
which some subscriptions are allowed to fall, and the re- 
fusal in some instances to pay what must by all the laws of 
good faith be considered due to the society, necessarily 
checks and hampers its proceedings, from the uncertainty 
thus attending its apparent income. 
“The exchange and sale of duplicate specimens from the 
Williams’ Geological Collection has been carried still further 
during the past year. In this way the society has been 
enabled to supply the Museum of Practical Geology, the 
British Museum, and other institutions, with some hun- 
dreds of duplicates, care having been taken not to part 
with those specimens which form the essential feature of 
the Society’s collection. The unique and interesting 
specimen of the Bellerophon was lent to Mr. Salter for the 
purpose of having a drawing taken of it, a suflicient testi- 
mony to its value, and duly returned by him. 
“ The manuscript of the late Mr. Williams, relating to 
the geological collection, was sold to the society under a 
covenant that, if it were not published within a given 
time, it should revert to the family. That time has 
