GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEB. 18, 1853, 

 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council, in laying their Annual Report before the Society, call 

 their attention to the satisfactory condition of their affairs. Their 

 numbers, which in 1851 had undergone a slight diminution, have, in 

 the past year, experienced an increase. During the past year 20 new 

 Fellows have been elected, and those elected in 1851 have paid their 

 admission-fees in the past year : in all, 23. The Society has lost 19 

 Fellows by deaths, and 1 has resigned ; in all, 20 : which, deducted 

 from 23, the number of new Fellows, leaves an increase to the Society 

 of 3. The Society has further lost an Honorary Member by death ; 

 thus reducing the total increase of the Society to 2. 



The total number of the Society in 1852 was 864 ; and, in the 

 present year, 866. 



The expenditure during the past year has exceeded the income by 

 ^145 9«. Sd. This has arisen from the unusual outlay in illustrating 

 Memoirs published in the Quarterly Journal ; the importance of 

 those communications, in the judgement of the Council, fully justify- 

 ing the expenditure. 



The Council would here call the attention of the Society to the 

 fact, that the number of its Members who are contributors to the 

 Journal is very limited. The Society must be sensible that an 

 increased sale of their publications is of the highest importance, and 

 would greatly add to their means of illustrating the valuable Memoirs 

 which are daily sent in : they confidently trust that they shall have 

 it in their power at the next Annual Meeting to report that they are 

 experiencing increased support. 



The excess of income over expenditure during the last five years 

 xs£7Q 12s. M. 



The number of compounders at the close of 1851 was 133, and 

 at the close of 1852 was also 133 ; two Fellows having died, and two 

 Fellows having compounded during that period. One of these 

 compositions, together with two received in 1851, too late to be 



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