PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Vol. IV. Part I. 1843. No. 93. 



AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



\1th of February, 184S. 



The following Report from the Council was read : — 



In presenting their Annual Report on the state of the Society, the 

 Council have to notice as one of the most gratifying occurrences of 

 the past year, the addition of His Majesty the King of Prussia to 

 the number of royal personages Members of the Society. The gra- 

 cious manner in which His Majesty condescended to take his place 

 as a Member of this Sbciety, was noticed by. our President in his 

 Address at the last Anniversary. 



In calling attention to the present state of the Society, the Coun- 

 cil have the satisfaction of being able to announce a continued in- 

 crease in the number of its Fellows. At the end of 1841 there were 

 784 Fellows, 28 Honorary Members, 50 Foreign Members, and 3 

 Personages of Royal Blood, making a total of 865. During the year 

 1 842, 26 new Fellows were elected and admitted, and S Fellows were 

 admitted who had been elected in former years, making, with the ad- 

 mission of His Majesty the King of Prussia, a total addition of SO 

 new Fellows. On the other hand, there have been 17 deaths, 7 re- 

 signations, and 1 removal, besides 1 Honorary Member and 1 Foreign 

 Member deceased, making a loss of 27? to be deducted from the in- 

 crease of 30, leaving a total increase of 3. 



The income of the Society during the year 1842 has exceeded 

 the expenditure by the sum of £297 Ss. 5d., but in the year's expen- 

 diture a considerable portion of the cost of the Second Part of Vol. 

 VI. of the Transactions, amounting to £558 4s., has not been in- 

 cluded. 



In consequence of the great expense attending the publication of 

 the last Volume of the Transactions, the Council have deemed 

 it expedient to delay funding the compositions of the three Fellows 

 who compounded during the year 1842; the value of the funded 

 property of the Society has therefore only increased by the varia- 



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