178 Reports and Proceedings — Geological Society of London. 



Geologioal Society of London. 



I.— February IGtli, 1906.— J. E. Marr, Sc.D., F.E.S., President, 



iu the Chair. 



Annual General Meeting. 



Tlie Reports of the Council and of the Library and Museum 

 Committee for the year 1905, proofs of which had been previously 

 distributed to the Fellows, were read. This year again the Council 

 announced a decrease in the number of Fellows, although the 

 number elected was 48 (2 more than in 190-1). Of these, 36 paid 

 their admission fees before the end of the year, making, with 13 

 previously elected Fellows, a total accession of 19 in the course of 

 the twelve months under review. During the same period, the 

 losses by death, resignation, and removal amounted to 61 (8 more 

 than in 1901), the actual decrease in the number of Fellows being, 

 therefore, 12 (as compared with a decrease of 3 in 1901). The 

 total number of Fellows on December 31st, 1905, was 1239. 



The balance-sheet for that year showed receipts to the amount 

 of £3,371 9s. Id. (including a balance of £409 7s. Id. brought 

 forward from 1904), and an expenditure of £3,066 &s. lOd. 



It was stated that increasinglj' rapid progress was being made 

 with Mr. C Davies Sherborn's manuscript Card-Catalogue of the 

 Library, and that " the end was now iu sight." 



It was further stated that, Mr. Sherborn having intimated his 

 inability to undertake, after the end of 1905, the preparation of 

 the catalogue-slips for the International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature, a Committee was appointed to review the part hitherto 

 taken by the Society iu furnishing the slips for British Geology to 

 the Central Bureau, and that Committee had recommended the 

 discontinuance of the work under present conditions. The Com- 

 mittee had also recommended that modifications be made in the 

 Society's Record of Geological Literature, so as to include all 

 geological literature published in Britain, and that slips from the 

 aforesaid Record shall be available for the purposes of the Central 

 Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



It was announced that substantial pi'ogress had been made in the 

 preparation of the forthcoming Centenary' Record of the Society, 

 initiated by Mr. Horace B. Woodward. 



Reference was made to the lamented decease of Dr. "W. T. Blanford, 

 and to the steps taken to fill up the vacancies in the Treasurership 

 and on the Council which his decease had created. 



The list of Awards of the various Medals and Proceeds of Donation 

 Funds in the gift of the Council was read. 



The Report of the Library and Museum Committee enumerated 

 the extensive additions made to the Society's Library, and gave some 

 details as to the Card-Catalogue. 



