VI ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



by the late Mr. D. Sharpe and Mr. S. V. Wood, as noticed in the 

 last Report. If the plan on which this Catalogue was commenced 

 were carried out, the Society's Collections would be rendered much 

 more available. 



Mr. Jones reports, that during the time that Mr. Whitaker has 

 been assisting him, in accordance with the order of Council granting 

 this temporary assistance, he has been gratified by Mr. Whitaker' s 

 willingness and attention, and has been greatly aided by him in 

 general business and in the arrangement of Books, Maps, Charts, 

 and Specimens. The Committee think that there is ample material 

 for the continued useful employment of Mr. Whitaker's labours. 



The Assistant-Secretary has laid before the Committee a series of 

 sorted specimens of Foraminifera and Brv'ozoa, picked from some of 

 the sandy and clayey matrices of fossils from Palermo, Turin, and 

 San Domingo in the Society's Collection, and mounted on small 

 mahogany slides, by W. K. Parker, Esq., who offers to sort out and 

 arrange in a similar manner all the Foraminifera, &c. (including the 

 Society's extensive series of Nummulites) which may be found in the 

 Collection, if the Society will bear the trifling expense of the materials 

 for the slides and a few boxes or drawers for such as will have to be 

 placed in racks. 



The Committee have been highly gratified with the beautiful series 

 of specimens thus presented to them, and strongly recommend the 

 acceptance of Mr. Parker's liberal offer of assistance in the arrange- 

 ment and mounting of these minute and interesting fossils. 



Leonard Horner. 

 W. W. Smyth. 

 S. R. Pattison. 

 Thomas F. Gibson. 



Comparative Stutemeni of the Number of the Society at the close of 

 the years 1855 and 1856. 



Dec. 31, 1855. Dec. 31, 1856. 



Compounders 131 128 



Residents 201 189 



Non-residents 474 485 



806 802 



Honorary Members 15 13 



Foreign Members 50 49 



Personages of Royal Blood 4 — 69 4 — Q^ 



875 868 



