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plates nine have been witnesses of tlie troubles on the Continent. 

 The stones employed for the plates of the Trigonise, designed in 

 Paris, were in great haste carried away from that city previous to the 

 siege, and happily escaped to Switzerland without damage. The 

 period of nearly a quarter of a century, during which the Society 

 has flourished, has produced good fruit in Palseontographical 

 matters through the mutual co-operation of the authors and the 

 members of the Society. There is some satisfaction in the thought 

 that the Monographs on the Corals, the Polyzoa of the Crag, 

 the Tertiary Echinodermata, the fossil Cirripedes, the Tertiary 

 and Cretaceous Entomostraca, the fossil Estherice, the Tertiary, 

 Cretaceous, Oolitic, Liassic, Permian, Carboniferous, Devonian, and 

 Silurian Brachiopoda, the MoUusca of the Crag, the Great Oolite 

 Mollusca, the fossils of the Permian formation, the Eeptilia of the 

 London Clay, the Eeptilia of the Cretaceous, Wealden and Purbeck 

 formations, and the fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic formations, 

 can be mentioned as subjects which have been completed, and which 

 can be separately bound as finished ; and that the Flora of the Car- 

 boniferous formation, the Crag Foraminifera, a Supplement to the 

 Corals, the Echinodermata of the Oolitic and Cretaceous formations, 

 the fossil Merostomata, the Trilobites, the Eocene Mollusca, the 

 Belemnites, the Fishes of the Old Eed Sandstone, the Eeptilia of the 

 Kimmeridge Clay and of the Lias, the Pleistocene Mammalia, and 

 the Cetacea of the Crag, are in course of publication. Seventy 

 plates, mostly belonging to works in preparation and not yet issued, 

 are also in stock, foreshadows of future contributions to the yearly 

 volumes. Already £16,987. 7s. 6d. have been expended in the fur- 

 therance of the object designed by the founders of the Society. 

 Since the commencement, in the year 1847, 24: volumes have been 

 issued, and 3,718 species have been illustrated by 1,044 plates, 

 together with many woodcuts, embracing altogether 19,547 figures, 

 and accompanied by 6,769 pages of text. In conclusion, the Council 

 ask the members to co-operate with them in obtaining new sub- 

 scribers. So national a work, so carefully written and prepared, so 

 fully illustrated, claims public support. Scattered far and wide are 

 the memorials of former organisms, silent, yet ready to speak when 

 invoked by the ardent student of nature. 



The following is a list of the Council duly elected for the ensuing 

 year: — President: J. S. Bowerbank, LL.D., F.E.S., F.Gr.S. Vice- 

 presidents: E. W. Binney, Esq., F.E.S., F.G.S. ; T. Davidson, Esq., 

 F.RS., F.G.S. ; Prof. Owen, M.D., F.E.S., F.G.S. ; T. Wright, M.D., 

 F.RS.E., F.G-.S. Council: J. J. Bigsby, M.D., F.E.S., F.G.S.; Sir 

 Antonio Brady, F.G.S. ; Prof. P. M. Duncan, M.B., F.E.S., F.G.S. ; 

 Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, Bart., F.G.S., V.P.G.S. ; E. Etheridge, Esq., 

 F.G.S.; J. W. Flower, Esq., F.G.S.; E. A. C. Godwin-Austen, 

 Esq., F.E.S., V.P.G.S. ; Sir W. V. Guise, Bart., F.G.S. ; J. W. Ilott, 

 Esq. ; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.E.S., F.G.S. ; H. Lee, Esq., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S. ; J. Pickering, Esq. ; J. Prestwich, Esq., F.E.S., Pres. G.S. ; 

 Prof. Tennant, F.G.S., F.Z.S. ; Capt. Tyler, F.L.S., F.G.S. ; H. Wood- 

 ward, Esq., F.G.S., F.Z.S. Treasurer : Searles Wood, Esq., F.G.S. 

 Secretary : Eev. T. Wiltshire, M.A., F.G.S. 



