178 Reports and Proceedings — 



to nearly 100 pages, and gives an account of the different methods 

 which have been devised for the refining of the crude natural 

 products. Section VII (63 pages) treats of the Shale-oil and allied 

 industries. Section VIII (also 63 pages) describes the methods of 

 transport, storage, and distribution : it is interesting to read, for 

 example, that one line of pipes — the Emery (United States) Line — 

 is 488 miles long. Section IX is another most important chapter, 

 and one in which the experience and special knowledge of Mr, 

 Eedwood is manifest : it treats of the testing of the raw material 

 and manufactured products. The next section (73 pages) gives an 

 account of the uses of petroleum and its products ; and the last one 

 (86 pages) collects together the statutory, municipal, and other 

 regulations adopted by various countries relative to the testing, 

 storage, transport, and uses of petroleum. The work is then 

 rounded off with 50 pages of statistics. 



It is evident that Mr. Bed wood's treatise will long be the standard 

 work on this important subject. 



BEPOBTS ^ISTID PBOCEEDI1TGS. 



Geological Society of London. 



I. — Annual General Meeting. — February 21st, 1896. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretaries read the Reports of the Council and of the Library 

 Committee for the year 1895. In the former the Council again con- 

 gratulated the Fellows on the satisfactory condition of the Society's 

 finances, and announced that the decrease in the number of Fellows, 

 to which attention had been drawn in the three previous annual 

 reports, had now been all but arrested. 



During 1895 the number of Fellows elected was 43 ; of these 32 

 qualified before the end of the year, making, with 12 previously 

 elected Fellows, a total accession of 44 during the twelvemonth. In 

 the same period the losses by death, resignation, and removal 

 amounted to 45, the decrease in the number of Fellows being 1. 

 The total number of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign Cor- 

 respondents was 1318 at the end of 1895, as compared with 1321 at 

 the end of 1894. 



The balance-sheet for the year 1895 showed receipts to the 

 amount of £3249 13s. 4cL, and an expenditure of £2398 5s. llrf., 

 the excess of actual income over expenditure being £492 18s. 4d. 

 Certain of the stocks belonging to the Society and to the Wollaston, 

 Barlow-Jameson, and Bigsby Trusts were sold out, and re-invested 

 in equally sound securities bearing a higher rate of interest. 



The completion of vol. li of the Quarterly Journal was announced, 

 as also the publication of No. 2 of the Record of Geological 

 Literature added to the Society's Library. The Index to the first 

 fifty volumes of the Quarterly Journal will, it is hoped, be issued to 

 the Fellows in the course of the present year. 



