X PEOCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 898, 



in part filled by the election of 4 Foreign Members and 7 Foreign 

 Correspondents, but at the end of the year there was still 1 vacancy 

 in the List of Foreign Members, and 2 in the List of Foreign? 

 Correspondents. 



The total number of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign 

 Correspondents, which on December 31st, 1896, was 1329, had 

 increased by the end of 1897 to 1333. 



Proceeding now to the consideration of the Society's annual 

 Income and Expenditure, the figures for 1897 may be summarized 

 as follows : — 



The total Eeceipts, including the Balance of <£768 3^. Od. 

 brought forward from the previous year, amounted to ,£3610 19s. Sd., 

 being .£353 4s. 3d. more than the estimated Income for the year. 

 On the other hand, the total Expenditure during 1897 amounted to 

 .£2887 16s. 3d,, being less by .£369 18s. 9d. than the estimated 

 Expenditure for that year. 



The actual excess of Expenditure over current Eeceipts in 1897 

 was .£45 Os. Od., but a glance at the Balance Sheet will show that 

 this excess is entirely due to Expenditure of a non-recurring 

 character, namely, the cost of compilation and publication of the Index 

 to the first Fifty Yolumes of the Quarterly Journal (.£350 13s. 4d.). 



There still remained at the end of 1897 a Balance of .£723 3s. Od. 

 available for Extraordinary Expenditure. 



The President, Council, and Fellows shared in the universal 

 expressions of loyalty and attachment to the Throne of which the 

 Sixtieth Anniversary of Her Majesty's xlccession was the happy 

 occasion. They presented an Address to the Queen, emphasizing the 

 progress which Geology, in common with other sciences, has made 

 under her long and beneficent rule, and Her Majesty was pleased to 

 receive the Address very graciously. 



The Seventh Session of the International Geological Congress 

 was held at St. Petersburg in the first days of September, and the 

 Council appointed as Delegates on behalf of this Society, Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, Prof. T. MeK. Hughes, and Mr. H. Bauerman. The Congress 

 was preceded and followed by geological journeys extending from 

 the Baltic to the Siberian steppes, and from Lake Ladoga to the 

 Caspian ; and everywhere in that vast country the most generous 

 hospitality was shown by all classes of the Russian people, from the 

 Emperor downwards. 



Sir Archibald Geikie in June last drew the attention of the Council 

 to the manuscript, in the Society's possession, of part of the Third 

 Yolume of Hutton's ' Theory of the Earth,' and urged the desira- 

 bility of its publication, offering at the same time to place his services 

 freely at the disposal of the Society for the editing of the manuscript. 

 It has been ascertained that the cost of printing 1000 copies in a 

 style uniform with the First and Second Volumes of the 'Theory of 

 the Earth ' would not exceed .£80, and the Council feel assured that 

 the Fellows wiU approve of that Expenditure being incurred during 

 the current year. A reduction on the published price will be made 

 to Fellows. 



