numerous ; your Committee recommend that these should not be 

 allowed any longer to remain buried iu the cellars ,of the Society's 

 apartments, but should be carefully examined and catalogued ; that 

 a selection be made for the Society, with ultimate reference to a 

 systematic as well as a stratigraphical collection; and that the 

 Curator be empowered to effect exchanges with the remainder, to 

 supply deficiencies in the Society's collection, either with the ma- 

 nagers of public institutions at home or abroad, or even with private 

 persons. 



The Library has been increased by the donation of about two 

 hundred volumes and pamphlets'. The Board of Ordnance continues 

 to present to the Society the maps of the Trigonometrical Survey 

 of Great Britain and of the Townland Survey of Ireland. The 

 charts published by the Admiralty and the Depot General de la 

 Marine of Paris, respectively, have likewise been received. 



CHA. LYELL. 



H. T. DE LA BECHE. 



ROBERT A. C. AUSTEN. 



Comparative Statement of the Number of the Society at the close of 

 the years 1841 awe? 1 34-2. 



Dec. 31, 1841. Dec, '51, 1842. 



Compounders 117 - . 118 



Residents ............ 251 243 



Non-residents ............. 416 427 



... ^.. v784' 

 Honorary Members ,.,, 28 

 Foreign Members .... 50 

 Personages of Royal Blood 3 



81 



865 868 



