PROCEEDINGS 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 

 Vol. IV. Part II. 1844. No. 100. 



AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



IBth of February, 1844, 

 The following Report from the Council was read ; — 



In laying their Annual Report before the Society, the Council have 

 the satisfaction of being enabled to state, that a considerable increase 

 has taken place in the numbers of the Society during the past year 

 as compared with several preceding years. In that period 17 Resi- 

 dent and 12 Non-resident Fellows have been elected and admitted; 

 besides which, 4 others who had been elected in former years have 

 paid their Admission Fees ; making an addition of 33 new Fellows : 

 there have been 8 deaths and 5 resignations, and 4 Fellows have 

 been removed as defaulters from the Society ; making a diminution 

 of 17, and leaving a clear increase of 16 Fellows. There has also 

 been one death amongst the Honorary Members. 



At the close of 1842 the number of Fellows was 788, and at the 

 close of 1843 it was 804, whilst the total numbers of Members at 

 the same periods were respectively 868 and 883. 



It is with much regret that the Council have to report that the 

 expenditure of the Society has exceeded its income by the sum of 

 £262 6s. '2d. ; it will be seen however, that the expense of £556 15^., 

 incurred in 1842, belongs to the second part of the sixth volume of 

 the Transactions ; and this has been carried to the account of the 

 past year. 



Only one composition has been received ; but owing to the great 

 pressure on the ordinary income of the Society, the Council have 

 delayed adding this sum to the funded capital ; so that the only in- 

 crease in this portion of the Society's property, which they have to 

 announce, arises from the present price of stock as compared with 

 that of the same date last year, which is as £2598 to £2544. The 

 number of existing compounders at the close of 1843 was 117, and 

 the amount of compositions which had been received from them was 

 £3685 10s., making a difference of only £1087 10s. between the 

 amount of compositions received and the actual value of the funded 

 property. 



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