PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



1832. No. 25. 



AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



17 th February 1832, 



The following Report from the Council was read :— 



The Council have much satisfaction in making a most favourable 

 Report of the affairs of the Society. The number of Fellows ad- 

 mitted since the last Anniversary, affords at once a proof of the in- 

 creasing interest which is taken in geological science, and of the 

 continued prosperity of the Society. The numerous donations of 

 Books, Maps, and Specimens have given additional value to the 

 Library and Museum ; and the indefatigable zeal of tbe Curator in 

 classifying and arranging the collection, has supplied facilities for 

 study and reference far greater than the Society had hitherto pos- 

 sessed. The annexed returns will show that the property of the 

 Society is very much increased, and that in every point of view its 

 affairs are in a nourishing state. 



REPORT of the Committee on the Museums. 



The disposition of the collections in the apartments of the So- 

 ciety has been considerably improved during the last year; the 

 simple Minerals having been removed into the Library ; the Scotch 

 and Irish specimens from thence to the lower Museum; the foreign 

 specimens to the upper Museum : so that the lower Museum now 

 includes the whole of the collections from the British Isles. 



The Curator has completed the arrangement of the whole of the 

 English and Scotch collections; the specimens of Ihe secondary 

 strata being disposed stratigraphically ; and those of the primitive 

 and transition rocks according to the districts in which they have 

 been collected ; each respective district being likewise stratigraphi- 

 cally arranged, so far as was practicable. 



The Fossils of the several strata are all fixed on boards, and dis- 

 posed in zoological order. 



I. British Collections. The following are among the principal 

 Deficiencies which still remain in this part of the series. 



The collection from the Crag, and the accumulations above the 

 Chalk, has been improved, but is still defective. 



