PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Vol. II. 1833—1834. No. 35. 



AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



2\ St February 1834, 



The following Report from the Council was read : — 



The Council have great satisfaction in being able this year to 

 report that the aft'airs of the Society continue in a state of progres- 

 sive improvement. Not only has the number of Members increased 

 very considerably, notwithstanding the great mortality which the 

 Society has this year to lament, but the finances may be said to be 

 flourishing in a manner totally unprecedented in former years. 



Fifty-one new Members have been elected during the last year, 

 but there were twenty-two deaths and five resignations, leaving, at 

 the end of the year 1833, a total number of 716 Members. 



With regard to the finances, the balances in hand amount at pre- 

 sent to the sum of 763^. ; and in compliance with the suggestion of 

 the Auditors, the sum of 440^. has, in the course of the year, been in- 

 vested in the purchase of 500^. Consols. The whole balance, there- 

 fore, in the hands of the Society may be calculated at 1203/., an in- 

 crease of about 300/. upon the balance with which the Society com- 

 menced the year ; to which may be added the sum of 179/. 7^. 9d., 

 the difference between the amount of the outstanding debts at the 

 end of 1832 and at the end of 1833, which at the former period 

 amounted to 297/. lis. 6d., and at the latter only to US/. 3s. 9d. 



It may also be observed, that the balance of the property of the 

 Society, without including the value of the collections, the library, 

 or the furniture, is nearly equal to the amount of all the sums 

 which have been received for compositions since the formation of 

 the Society, viz. about 2200/. 



From the Report of the Committee appointed to examine the state 

 of the Museum, it will be seen that additional space is now become 

 absolutely necessary, for the arrangement of the specimens in a 

 manner consistent both with the objects and interests of the Society, 

 and with the attention which is due to the individuals who have pre- 



