GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEB. 21, 1855. 

 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council have much pleasure in making a Report which indi- 

 cates that progressive prosperity of the Geological Society which 

 must be satisfactory to its Members. It will be seen that during 

 the past year 32 new Fellows have been elected, and that two elected 

 in former years have completed their Fellowship, making an addition 

 of 34 Ordinary Fellows. One Foreign Member has also been elected. 

 On the other hand, the diminution which the Society has sustained 

 from deaths and resignations amounts to 22, leaving for 1854 a total 

 increase of 13 Ordinary Members, a result which contrasts favour- 

 ably with many former years. At the close of 1853, the Geological 

 Society numbered 871 Members; at the close of the past year it 

 consisted of 884. 



The Council have to report that the current expenditure of the 

 Society during the past year has exceeded the income by the sum 

 of £9 lis. lie?., not including in this calculation the sum of 58189 

 received for compositions, nor the sum of s6199 15s. 3c?. invested 

 in Exchequer Bonds. The Council think it right to explain that 

 this circumstance, apparently so contradictory to the Reports of 

 the two preceding years, can be most satisfactorily accounted for. 



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