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During 1S99 the number of Fellows elected was 52 (exactly the 

 same number as in 1898) : of these 45 qualified before the end of 

 the year, making, with 11 previously elected Fellows, a total 

 accession of 56 in the course of the twelve months under review. 

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

 removal amounted to 51, the actual increase in the number of 

 Fellows being therefore 5. 



The total number of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign 

 Correspondents, which on December 31st, 1898, was 1,336, stood 

 at 1,344 by the end of 1899. 



The balance-sheet for the year 1899 showed receipts to the 

 amount of £3,991 14s. 4:d. (including a balance of £1,U76 Os. 8d. 

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

 £3,029 14s. Qd. (omitting the sum of £541 6s. Qd. invested in India 

 3 per cent. Stock). Among the items of non-recurring expenditure 

 were £200 contributed by the Society, at the request of H.M. Office 

 of Works, towai'ds the cost of the improved lavatory accommodation 

 at the Society's apartments ; and £73 16s. 5tL expended in the 

 publication of vol. iii of Button's " Theory of the Earth." The 

 balance remaining available for the current year is £420 13s. \0d. 



The Council announced that it was proposed to complete the 

 extension of the electric lighting to the whole of the Society's 

 apartments at an estimated cost of £250, and the Fellows were 

 requested to sanction this expenditure. 



The bequest made by Sir Joseph Prestwich of the sum of £800 

 had now become payable to the Society, owing to the lamented 

 death of Lady Prestwich. An extract from Sir Joseph's will was 

 read, citing the purposes to which this sum is applicable, but it was 

 pointed out that, in common with other legacies, that to the Society 

 will have to be to some extent abated and moreover will have to 

 bear its own legacy duty. 



Eeference was made to the issue of the third volume of Hutton's 

 "Theory of the Earth," and gratitude was expressed for the minute 

 and reverent care with which the work had been edited and 

 annotated by Sir Archibald Geikie. 



The completion of vol. Iv and the commencement of vol. Ivi of 

 the Society's Quarterly Journal was mentioned, and it was stated 

 that the Council had decided to discontinue, for the present, the 

 issue of index-slips. 



In conclusion, the awards of the various Medals and proceeds of 

 donation funds in the gift of the Council were announced. 



The report of the Library and Museum Committee enumerated 

 the increasingly extensive additions made to the Society's Library, 

 and announced the completion by Mr. C. Davies Sherborn of the 

 work of labelling and registering the type, and other important 

 specimens in the Museum. 



After the reports had been read, the President invited those to 

 speak who wished to make any comment on the management of the 

 Society. Dr. G. J. Hinde said that owing to the action of the 

 Council in rejecting a motion which he had made to it, " that an 



