GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEBRUARY 20. 1857. 

 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council, in submitting their Annual Report to the Members, 

 have pleasure in being able to bear testimony to the generally pros- 

 perous state of the Society. The deaths and resignations have been 

 considerable during the last year, though not so high as in the 

 previous year. Twenty-four new Fellows have been elected, and two, 

 who were elected in the previous year, have paid their subscriptions, 

 making an addition of twenty-six ordinary Fellows. One Foreign 

 Member has also been elected. On the other hand, the diminution 

 which the Society has sustained from deaths is twenty-two, and by 

 resignation seven, amounting to twenty-nine ; and two Fellows have 

 been removed as defaulters ; and by deducting one Non-Resident 

 Fellow, who was considered in 1855 as deceased in error, it makes 

 a decrease of thirty ordinary Fellows. Two Foreign Members have 

 died, as also two Honorary Members. The total number therefore 

 of the Geological Society at the close of 1855, was 875, and at the 

 close of the past year it consisted of 868 Members. 



The Council have to report that the expenditure during 1856 has 

 exceeded the income by ^6 183 \s. 10c?., which does not include the 

 sum of j679 125. 4^?., the amount of excess of expenditure at the 

 close of 1855 : the actual excess of expenditure is therefore ^280 

 14s. 2d,', this circumstance is chiefly to be explained by the payment 

 of ^102 55. Od. for the Supplementary Catalogue, and by the expense 

 of the completion of the 7th Volume of the Transactions (publica- 

 tions which are not likely soon to recur), and the expenditure of about 

 5630 connected with the late Mr. Greenough's bequest, which will 

 hereafter be liquidated from his special legacy. 



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