PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



1833. No. 30. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 

 loth February 1833, 

 The following Report from the Council was read : — 



It is gratifying to the Council that they are able to give a most 

 satisfactory Report of the affairs of the Society. Ample donations of 

 Books and Specimens have been received since the last Anniversary, 

 whereby the value and usefulness of the Library and Museum are 

 materially increased. The large accession of new Members since the 

 last annual Report, amounting to 44, affords a gratifying proof of the 

 unabated interest which is taken in this Society, and of the growing 

 taste for geological pursuits. The state of the funds is equally satis- 

 factory ; since, after paying all debts, there remains a balance in hand 

 of nearly 900/. 



The Second Part of the Third Volume of theTransactions, announced 

 as ready for publication at the last Anniversary, has since been pub- 

 lished; and the Supplement to that volume, together with the First 

 Part of the Fourth Volume, is preparing for publication. 



In pursuance of the Resolution of a Council held on the 18th of 

 January 1 832, one year's dividend of the Wollaston Fund has been 

 paid to Mr. Lonsdale, for continuing during the then ensuing summer 

 a survey of the oolitic series of England northwards from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Calne ; and the Council cannot suffer this opportunity 

 to pass, without expressing their entire approbation of the masterly 

 manner in which the work has been done and recorded in the Memoir 

 read before this Society. 



The annexed Reports comprehend a full statement of the affairs of 

 the Society. 



REPORT of the Committee appointed to examine and report on the 

 state of the Museums. 



In consequence of the absence of the Curator in fulfilment of the 

 Resolution of the Council of the 18th January 1832, directing that 

 one year's dividend of theWollaston Fund should be paid to Mr. Lons- 

 dale, for continuing, during the summer then ensuing, a survey of the 

 oolitic series of England northwards from the neighbourhood of Calne, 

 the Committee are not able to report any progress in the arrange- 



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