PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



Vol. li. 1837. No. 49. 



AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



17 th February, 1837, 



The following Report from the Council was read : 



The Council has again to congratulate the Society upon a consi- 

 derable increase in the number of its Members, evincing the interest 

 taken by the public in the advancement of Geological science. Fifty- 

 three new Fellows have been elected during the past year. The 

 Council, under the alteration in the by-law adopted by the Society 

 at a Special General Meeting, held 27th of April last, have removed 

 the names of two Fellows from the list of the Society ; the deaths and 

 resignations amount to 15, so that the Society, which at the end of 

 1835 consisted of 774 Members, at the end of 1836 was increased 

 to 810. 



The state of the finances (the details of which will be found fully 

 set forth in the annexed accounts) may be considered even more en- 

 couraging than the corresponding one at the last anniversary. 



The expenditure has been less than the estimates then submitted 

 to the Society. Those now presented are arranged according to the 

 probable demands of the Society for the ensuing year, which in some 

 departments have required enlargement, owing to the increase in the 

 numbers of the Society. 



The funded property of the Society has been increased, a sum (in- 

 cluding a purchase in January,) having been invested more than 

 equal to the compositions of the past year, and the Council is pro- 

 ceeding gradually to accomplish the recommendation of the auditors 

 in 1833, viz., to invest in Stock a sum equal to the entire amount of 

 compounded subscriptions. The property last year was valued at 

 2102Z. 185.; it is now calculated to be worth 2563/. 5s. 5d. 



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

 posal, the Council has this year awarded two Medals, one to Captain 

 Proby Cautley of the Bengal Artillery, and the other to Dr. Hugh 



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