﻿GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEB. 21, 1851. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



In laying before the Geological Society a Report of the occurrences 

 of the past year, the Council congratulate its Members on the gene- 

 ral prosperity of their affairs. Their numbers have sustained a small 

 diminution. During the past year 14- Fellows have been elected, in 

 addition to 2 who have paid their admission-fees in the last year, 

 although elected in the previous, making an increase of 16. On the 

 other hand, the Society has lost 12 Fellows by death, and 11 by 

 resignation, in all 23. Deducting from this number the 16 new 

 Fellows, the decrease in the number of Ordinary Fellows is 7. The 

 Society has lost by deaths 2 Honorary Members and 6 Foreign 

 Members, — while 2 Foreign Members have been elected, occa- 

 sioning a loss of 6 ; which, added to the loss of 7 Ordinary Fellows, 

 reduces the number of the Society from 888 at the close of 1849, 

 to 875 at the close of 1850. 



The expenditure during the past year has exceeded the income 

 by £120 10s. 6d. This has arisen from the unusual expenditure on 

 the Library, and on the Quarterly Journal. It will be in the recol- 

 lection of the Society, that during the years 1848 and 1849 the in- 

 come had exceeded the expenditure by the sum of £289 Os. 8d. : 

 the Council judged that no mode of expending a portion of this balance 

 could be devised more favourable to the interests of the Society, or 

 more in unison with their wishes, than in the purchase of books. 

 They have accordingly expended £84 towards this object, and the 

 list of the more important works, printed in the Report of the Library 

 Committee, will show the value of this accession to the Library. 



The sum expended on the Journal has also exceeded the average 

 of past years, in consequence of the number of engraved plates re- 

 quired for the illustration of papers read before the Society being 



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