GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEBRUARY 15, 1856. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council, in laying their annual statement of the affairs of the 

 Society before its Members, beg to express their opinion that it 

 evinces a continuance of the same satisfactory state to which, on 

 former occasions, they have directed attention. The number of 

 Fellows, it is true, has suffered a diminution of nine ; but this is 

 mainly to be attributed to the numerous deaths which have occurred 

 since the last anniversary. The Society from this cause has lost 

 twenty-six ordinary Fellows, and seven have resigned during the 

 same period, making a loss of thirty-three. Twenty new Fellows 

 have been elected in the past year, and four elected in the previous 

 year have paid their subscriptions in this ; making, in all, 24, which, 

 deducted from 33, leaves a loss to the Society of 9, as before stated. 

 One Foreign Member has died, and one has been elected during the 

 year. The total number of the Society at the close of 1854 was 

 884, and 875 at the close of 1855. 



The expenditure during 1855 has exceeded the income by 

 £^7 I2s. Ad. I but in the income is included ^191 12^. 9c?., the 

 balance at the beginning of the year. The actual excess of 

 expenditure is, therefore, ^628 9 5*. Id., which has principally been 

 occasioned by increased expenditure on the Quarterly Journal and 



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