GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEB. 17, 1871. 

 EEPORT OF THE COTTNCIL POR 1870. 



The Council of the Geological Society, in presenting their Report 

 for the year 1870, have again to congratulate the JFellows on the 

 increasing prosperity of the Society. 



The number of new Fellows elected was 58, of whom, however, 

 only 42 paid their fees before the end of the year, making, with 9 

 previously elected Fellows who paid their fees in 1870, a total 

 eifective increase of 51 Fellows. Against this must be placed the 

 loss of 21 Fellows by death, of 5 by resignation, and of 3 removed 

 from the list on account of non-payment of contributions, making 

 a total of 29, and thus giving a net increase of 22 ordinary Fellows. 

 The number of Contributing Fellows is now 533, 



The election of 1 Foreign Member and of 2 Foreign Correspon- 

 dents took place in 1870, and the death of 1 Foreign Member was 

 announced. 



The total number of Fellows and Foreign Members and Corre- 

 spondents at the end of 1869 was 1222 ; and at the end of 1870, 

 1245. 



The Council have much gratification in reporting that, notwith- 

 standing a very heavy expenditure in illustrations for the Quarterly 

 Journal of the Society, the Income of the year 1870 exceeded the 

 Expenditure by ■£156 Os. 2d. ; the total Eeceipts being £2050, and 

 the total Expenditure £1867 15s. Qd. Under these circumstances 

 the Council felt justified in investing a further sum of £200 in the 

 purchase of £211 7s. 3c?. of 3 per cent. Consols. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. XXVI. of 

 the Quarterly Journal, and the commencement of the publication of 

 Vol. XXVII. 



They have also to announce that to provide for the increasing cir- 

 culation of the Quarterly Journal, and in order to be able to present 

 copies to the Foreign Correspondents, they have decided in future 

 to print 1500 copies of it, and also to give the authors of papers 

 published in the Journal 25 separate copies properly made up, in 

 lieu of the 15 copies which have hitherto been prepared by cutting 

 up twice that number of sheets of the Journal. 



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