PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



1830. No. 15. 



AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



\9th February 1830. 



A Report from the Council was read, of which the following is an 

 abstract : — 



The experience of a year enables the Council to state with confi- 

 dence, that the late change of apartments has been attended with 

 most beneficial results, both in the increased facilities of exposing to 

 view the collections of the Society, and in affording more ample, 

 though yet scarcely sufficient, accommodation to the rapidly in- 

 creasing number of Fellows. 



The Council beg to call the attention of the Society to the follow- 

 ing statement, which points out many deficiencies in the collection ; 

 and they trust that all the Fellows will interest themselves warmly 

 in contributing such specimens of organic remains, as will fill up the 

 numerous blanks which still exist in the English series. 



Report upon the Museums and Library. 



I. English Collection. The whole of this collection, the ar- 

 rangement of which had been commenced and considerably advanced 

 by the labours of Mr. Greenough, has been placed by the Curator, 

 Mr. Lonsdale, in the order of superposition, in conformity with the 

 directions of the Council ; and the arrangement of about one third 

 of it may be considered complete ; duplicates having been rejected, 

 and the organic remains having been labelled and fixed upon descrip- 

 tive tablets, so as to obviate the necessity of a perpetual reference to 

 a special catalogue in each drawer. The Curator has at the same 

 time made some progress in a general catalogue, which when com- 

 pleted will be laid upon the table of the Museum. On examining 

 the drawers in a descending order, the Committee beg to submit the 

 following observations to the Council. 



