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Address to the .Gcological Society, delivered at the Anniversary, on 
the 2\st of February, 1840, by the Rev. Proressor BucKLAnND, 
D.D., F.R.S., Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, 
President of the Society. 
GENTLEMEN, 
By the Report just read, you have seen that the state of our 
Society is one of steady and salutary progression ; forty-three new 
Members have been added to the List of our Fellows, from which 
seventeen have been removed by death, or resignation, leaving our 
actual number 768, with an increase of twenty-six during the last 
year. ‘The vacancies that have occurred upon our foreign list have 
been supplied by three highly distinguished cultivators of science 
on the Continent, each preeminent for his successful labours in high 
departments of our subject, namely : 
Major Puillon de Boblaye, in Positive Geology, 
Professor Adolphe Brongniart, in Vegetable Paleontology, 
Professor Gustave Rose, in Crystallography and Mineral Analysis. 
We are rich in property, though our funds are, at this moment, 
low; but they will speedily be repaired by the sale of two large 
and costly parts which have been added to our Transactions. 
The Reports of the Library and Collections in our Museum are 
satisfactory. The chief additions to the former consist of presents 
from Authors and Members of the Society. Our principal bene- 
factor has been Mr. Greenough, who has given us a Collection of 
the older Authors,—supplying many of our deficiencies in the 
Literature of Geology and Mineralogy. Considerable progress has 
been made in the arrangement of the Cabinets by our Sub-Curator, 
Mr. Woodward, under the superintendence and directions of Mr. 
Lonsdale; one hundred and sixty drawers of rock specimens and 
fossil remains having been labelled, and in part catalogued, since the 
meeting of last year. It is satisfactory to find that the number 
of persons who come to study our Collections has been much in- 
creased. 
Our entire establishment continues to receive the inestimable 
advantages it has long enjoyed, from the zealous superintendence, 
and scientific acquirements of our Curator, Mr. Lonsdale. 
