

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEB. 18; 1859. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council of the Geological Society, in presenting their Annual 

 Report to the Members, have pleasure in referring to the undiminished 

 prosperity of the Society. They have, however, to regret that the 

 number of deaths recorded in 1858 has been beyond precedent, 

 having amounted (including several which occurred in former years, 

 but were only recently ascertained) to forty, which, with eleven re- 

 signations and the removal of four defaulters, makes a reduction of 

 fifty-five. An unusually large number of new Eellows (forty-one) 

 have been elected, and nine who had before been elected, have paid 

 their admission-fees, making an addition of fifty ordinary Eellows. 



Two foreign Members have been elected to fill two places vacated ; 

 the one by death, the other by admission to ordinary Fellowship. 



The total niunber of the Society at the close of 1857 was 877 ; 

 at the close of last year, 872. 



The Council have to report that the income of the year has ex- 

 ceeded the expenditure by <£28 5s. 5d. ; and that in this expenditure 

 is included the sum of .£55 15s. lie?., the cost of printing Mr. 

 Ormerod's Classified Index to the Publications of the Society, which, 

 being now complete, will, it is hoped, at once be appHed for by 

 those Members who are desirous of acquiring so useful a book of 

 reference. 



The amount of the Funded Property of the Society remains the 

 same, viz. £4578 19s. 2d., including £500, the legacy of the late 

 Mr. Greenough, of which about £55 has been disbursed in charges 

 incidental to his bequest of books and maps, and temporarily liqui- 

 dated out of the ordinary expenditure of the last three years. 



Amongst other donations received since the last Anniversary, the 

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