X PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 899, 



List of Poreign Correspondents. During the year 1898 the Society 

 had to lament the loss hy death of 5 of its Foreign Members and 

 1 Foreign Correspondent. The vacancies thus created were in 

 part filled by the election of 3 Foreign Members and 3 Foreign 

 Correspondents, but at the end of the year there were still 3 vacancies 

 in the List of Foreign Members, and 1 in the List of Foreign 

 Correspondents. 



The total number of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign 

 Correspondents, which stood at 1333 on December 31st, 1897,. 

 had increased to 1336 by the end of 1898. 



Proceeding now to consider the Income and Expenditure of the 

 Society during the twelve months under review, the figures, set 

 forth in detail in the accompanying Balance-sheet, may be 

 summarized as follows : — 



The total Eeceipts, including the Balance of <£723 3^. Od. 

 brought forward from the previous year, amounted to £3575 7s. Id., 

 being <£102 IO5. Id. more than the estimated Income for the year. 

 On the other hand, the total Expenditure during 1898 amounted 

 to <£2499 6s. 5d., being .£175 17s. 7d. less than the estimated 

 Expenditure for tha,t year. The Balance remaining available for 

 the current year is £1076 Os. 8d. 



Among the Eeceipts during 1898 will be noticed a sum of 

 £15 18s. 2d. for 'Interest on Deposit.' It may be explained 

 here that on January 19th, 1898, the Treasurer was authorized by 

 the Council to place £1000, of the then available Balance, on 

 Deposit at the Bankers ; and it was found possible to avoid making 

 any withdrawal from that deposit until very nearly the close of 

 the year. 



The Extraordinary Expenditure, which would have been incurred 

 in carrying out the Eedecoration of the Society's Apartments, was 

 necessarily postponed, in view of the declared intention, on the part 

 of H.M. Office of Works, to lay down a new system of drainage in 

 connexion with the Society's Apartments. This work is to be 

 commenced almost immediately, and the Council, having seized the 

 opportunity of pointing out to the Secretary of H.M. Office of 

 Works the need for improved lavatory accommodation, the Depart- 

 ment has agreed to carry out the work ; but, on the ground that 

 the proposed new arrangements involve a structural alteration and 

 addition to the building, has asked the Society to contribute the 

 sum of £200 towards the cost. This is a contribution which the 

 Council feel justified in recommending, and the assent thereto of the 

 Fellows is hereby requested. 



The MS. of the Third Volume of Hutton's ' Theory of the Earth,' 

 edited by Sir Archibald Geikie, under the circumstances detailed in 

 last year's Eeport, is now in the press. A circular letter was 

 recently sent to all Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign Cor- 

 respondents of the Society, and to all Institutions which receive 

 the Society's publications, inviting them to state whether they 

 wished to purchase one or more copies of the volume in question, 

 on payment of Two Shillings per copy in the case of Fellows, and 



