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passage from the quartz-rock through a quartzose limestone to an 

 ordinary limestone, the presence of chert, of part of a foraiiiinifer, 

 and of pieces of quartzose limestone in it, support the opinion that 

 it is an altered limestone. 



II. — Annual General Meeting. — February 18, 1898. 



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



The Secretaries read the Reports of the Council and of the 

 Library and Museum Committee for the year 1897. In the former 

 the Council referred to the uninterrupted financial prosperity of the 

 Society and to the continued increase in the number of Fellows. 



During 1897 the number of Fellows elected was 59 : of these 

 41 qualified before the end of the year, making, with 13 previously 

 elected Fellows, a total accession of 54 in the course of the twelve- 

 month. During the same period, the losses by death, resignation, 

 and removal amounted to 51, the increase in the number of Fellows 

 being 3. 



The total number of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign 

 Correspondents, which on December 31st, 1896, was 1,329, stood 

 at 1,333 by the end of 1897. 



The balance-sheet for the year 1897 showed receipts to the 

 amount of £3,610 19s. ^d. (including a balance of £768 3s. i)d. 

 brought forward from the. previous year), and an expenditure of 

 £2,887 16s. Zd. There was an actual excess of expenditure over 

 current receipts of £45, but the excess was entirely due to 

 expenditure of a non-recurring character, and there still remained at 

 the end of 1897 a balance of £723 3s. available for the extraordinary 

 expenditure contemplated in the estimates submitted to the Fellows. 

 The completion of Vol. LlII of the Society's Quarterly Journal 

 was announced, as also the publication of No. 4 of the Record of 

 Geological Literature added to the Society's Library, and of Part II 

 of the General Index to the first Fifty Volumes of the Quarterly 

 Journal. 



An address was presented to Her Majesty by the President and 

 Council, on their behalf and on that of the Fellows, on the occasion 

 of the Sixtieth Anniversary of her Accession ; and three delegates 

 were nominated to represent the Society at the International 

 Geological Congress held at St. Petersburg. 



The attention of the Council had been drawn by Sir Archibald 

 Geikie to the manuscript, in the Society's possession, of part of the 

 Third Volume of Hutton's " Theory of the Earth." He had freely 

 offered his services as editor, and it was proposed to print and 

 publish the work during the present year. 



Reference was also made to the work done by the Committee 

 appointed in connection with the International Catalogue Committee, 

 and to the Index slips issued with the current number of the 

 Quarterly Journal. 



In conclusion the awards of the various medals and proceeds of 

 donation funds in the gift of the Society were announced. 



