X PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I904 



the Number of Fellows of 4 (as compared with an increase of 6 in 

 1902, and a decrease of 4 in 1901). 



This brings the total number of Fellows down to 1254, made up 

 as follows : — Compounders 287, Contributing Fellows 930 (exactly 

 the same number as in 1902), and Non-Contributing Fellows 37. 



Turning now to the Lists of Foreign Members and Foreign 

 Correspondents, we have to deplore the loss of two of the former 

 in 1903 (Prof. J. P. Lesley and Prof. A. Renard). One Foreign 

 Correspondent also died (Herr F. Karrer). The vacancies thus 

 created (and one in the List of Foreign Correspondents left over 

 from 1902) were in part filled by the transfer of Prof. A. Penck 

 and Prof. A. Koch from the list of Correspondents to that of 

 Members, and by the election of Prof. C. Klein, and Dr. E. E. A. 

 Tietze as Foreign Correspondents. But there still remained on 

 December 31st, 1903, two vacancies in the list of Foreign Corre- 

 spondents. 



With regard to the Income and Expenditure of the Society during 

 the past year, the figures set forth in detail in the Balance-Sheet 

 may be summarized as follows : — 



The total Receipts, including the Balance of £61 7s. 8d. brought 

 forward from the previous year, amounted to £3003 0s. 9d., being 

 £75 14s. lid. less than the estimated Income. 



The total Expenditure during 1903 amounted to £2810 13s. 10d., 

 being £206 14s. 2d. less than the estimated Expenditure for that 

 year. 



The Estimates laid before the Fellows at the last Annual General 

 Meeting were exceeded chiefly in the case of the Library (£42 12s. 5d.). 

 On the other hand, the Expenditure incurred in connexion with the 

 Museum-Catalogue was £37 15s. 3d. less, and that incurred in 

 connexion with the Quarterly Journal was £229 2s. Id. less, than 

 the estimated Expenditure. 



During the past year the Council have had under consideration 

 certain suggested alterations in the method of selecting Papers 

 for Publication, and in the rules with regard to the admission of 

 Visitors to General Meetings. The result of these deliberations 

 will be laid before the Fellows at a Special General Meeting, to be 

 summoned at an early date. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. LIX and 

 the commencement of Vol. LX of the Society's Quarterly Journal. 



Reference is made in the Report of the Library-and-Museum 

 Committee to Mr. C. Davies Sherborn's manuscript Card-Catalogue 

 of the Library. It is hoped that Fellows will make use of this 

 Catalogue for finding references to literature on the subjects of 

 their studv. Mr. Sherborn has also undertaken to continue during 

 the current year the preparation of the catalogue-slips for the 

 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



Since Easter 1903, the state of health of the President has been 

 such as to preclude him from coming to London, to guide the 

 deliberations of the Council or to take the chair at the Evening 

 Meetings. These duties were undertaken 'during three months of 



