76 Geological Society of London. 
Arr. VII.— Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the 
Geological Society of London, on the Lith of February, 1837; 
by Cuartes Lyes, Jun., Esq., M.A., F.R.S., President of 
the Society. 
GentLemen,—Yov will have learnt from the Treasurer’s Report 
that the finances of the Society are flourishing, and they would have 
appeared in a still more prosperous condition, had we not expended 
above 500/. within the year on our Transactions. Part of this sum 
has already been repaid by the sale of the volume just published, of 
which I may safely say that it yields to no preceding number in the 
value of its contents or the extent and beauty of its illustrations. 
The total number of Fellows of the Society, exclusive of Honor- 
ary and Foreign Members, at the close of the year 1835, was 670; 
at the close of 1836, 709; being an actual increase, after deducting 
14 for deaths, removals, and resignations, of 39 Fellows.* 
We have to lament the loss of Dr. Henry, of Manchester, so highly 
distinguished as a chemist and philosopher, and who took a warm in- 
terest in the progress of our science. Our list of Foreign Members 
has been diminished by two deaths, those of Professor Hoffman of 
Berlin, and Baron Férussac of Paris. 
* Professor Frederick Hoffman was suddenly cut off in his 39th 
year, at the moment when the scientific world were impatiently ex- 
pecting his account of the Geology of Sicily. You are probably 
best acquainted with him as the author of the great Geological Map 
of Western Germany, in which he made known the results of many 
years of patient and accurate research. This Map, published in 
1829, was divided into twenty-four sheets, and was followed in 1830 
by an Atlas containing sections, and a more general map on a smaller 
scale of the same country. In the same year the author’s Geogra- 
phy and Geology of North-western Germany appeared,+ which may - 
be regarded as a commentary on the great map, comprising a de- 
Seription of the physical outline of the country, its mountains, val- 
leys, plains, and river-courses, and a sketch of a portion of its geo- 
+ The return of the number of Fellows, and the deaths alluded to in this Ad- 
dress, refer exclusively to the year 1836, and not to the period intervening between 
the last and present Anniversa Tsary. 
t Orograph. und Geognost. Verbaltnisse vom Nordwestlithel on 2 
vols. Leipzig, 1830. 
