PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP LONDON. 



1831. No. 20. 



AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 

 18th February 1831, 



The following Report from the Council was read : — ■ 



The Council, in making their Annual Report, feel great pleasure in 

 being able to present a series of Returns, by which the continued 

 prosperity of the Society, and its increasing interest in public opinion, 

 are clearly proved. 



The Council beg, in the first place, to call the attention of the So- 

 ciety to the Report of a Select Committee, appointed to examine the 

 state of the Museums and Library ; by which it will be seen that many 

 important additions were made during the past year. 



It is with great satisfaction that the Council call attention to the 

 Treasurer's Reports. On referring to these documents it will be seen 

 that the estimated Receipts for the ensuing year exceed the estimated 

 Expenditure, including the cost of the publication of a new Part of 

 the Society's Transactions. 



By the returns connected with the numerical strength of the So- 

 ciety, the Council have the satisfaction of showing, that the loss by 

 deaths and resignations during the past year amounted to only Six 

 while the accession of new Fellows amounted to Fifty-one ; making 

 an actual increase on the Books of the Society of Forty-five. 



The Council, ever anxious to promote the circulation of the Society's 

 Transactions, have directed much of their attention since the last anni- 

 versary to this important subject; and they have made arrangements 

 with Messrs. Treuttel and Wiirtz, by which they hope that the hi- 

 therto accumulating stock will be speedily reduced, and the know- 

 ledge of the Transactions themselves be widely diffused both at home 

 and abroad. 



Finally, the Council are anxious to concur in the sentiments ex- 

 pressed in the concluding sentence of the Report on the state of the 

 Museum, and to record their testimony of the great talents and self- 

 devotion manifested by Mr. Lonsdale ever since his first connection 

 with the Society. 



Report upon the Museums and Library. 

 I. English Collection. The additions to this part of the collec- 

 tion consist of bones of Elephas Primigenius, of Rhinoceros and other 



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