PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Vol. II. 1836. No. 41. 



AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 

 I9th February, 1836, 



The following Report from the Council was read :— 



The Council has this year again to congratulate the Society upon 

 a gradual increase in the number of its Members, — a fresh evidence of 

 the interest taken by the public in Geological science. Forty-five 

 new Fellows have been elected ; the deaths and resignations are IG. 

 Upon the whole, the Society, which at the end of 1834 consisted of 

 745 Members, at the end of 1835 was increased to 774. 



The appearance of its finances is no less satisfactory. 



The expenditure in the past year has been under the estimates sub- 

 mitted to the Society. 



The stock of the Society has been increased by the purchase of 

 300/. more 3 per cent. Consols ; and upon the whole its property, last 

 year valued at 1 735 Z. 15s. lOrf., is now calculated to be worth 2102/. 18s. 

 The further details of the state of the Society's finances are fully set 

 forth in the annexed accounts. 



The probable expenditure in 1836 is estimated at about 1820Z. 



Out of the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund at the Society's dis- 

 posal, the Council has thought fit this year to present a Medal to 

 M. Agassiz, to mark their high sense of the value of his work of last 

 year upon fossil fish j and to award to M. Deshayes the sum of 25/. 

 as some assistance to him in his labours on fossil conchology. 



The following is the Report of the Committee appointed to ex- 

 amine into the state of the Library and Museums. 



REPORT of the Committee appointed to examine and report on the 

 state of the Museums and Library. 



Museum. 

 The labours of the Curator during the summer have been exerted 

 in re-arranging the fossils belonging to the crag, London clay, chalk, 

 upper green-sand, and gault. The specimens have now been put 



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