GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEB. 20, 1852. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council of the Geological Society beg to lay before the Meeting 

 their Annual Statement of the principal occurrences of the past year. 

 Although in number the Society has sustained a slight loss from 

 deaths and resignations, still the satisfactory state of the Society's 

 finances, and the increasing demand for their publications, entitle 

 the Council to congratulate the Meeting on the general prosperity of 

 their affairs. During the past year the Society has lost 21 Fellows 

 by deaths, and 8 by resignations, in all 29. Thirteen new Fellows 

 have been elected, and one elected in the previous year has paid his 

 admission-fee in the past year, in all 14. Deducting this number 

 from the 29 mentioned above, the total loss of Ordinary Fellows is 15. 

 The Society has lost 1 Foreign Member by death, while 5 new Foreign 

 Members have been elected, thus reducing the total loss to 11 : the 

 total number of the Society in 1851 was 875, and in the present 

 year 864. 



The income during the past year has exceeded the expenditure by 

 ^64 7 11*. 9d. ; and during the last four years, the total excess of 

 income over expenditure is 36216 1*. 11^. 



The number of compounders at the close of 1850 was 132, and at 

 the close of 1851 it was 133 ; 4 compounders having died and 5 Fel- 

 lows having compounded within the year, three of whose compositions 

 have been vested in the Funds, The total amount received from these 

 1 33 compounders has been £A 189 1 Os. The amount of Stock held by 

 the Society at the close of 1850 was j63695 35. 5d., and at the close 

 of 1851 S3792 3s. lid. ; the estimated value of which (taking Consols 

 at 95) is 3^3600, while two compositions still remain to be funded in 

 the course of this year. 



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