GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEBRUARY 19, 1859. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council, in laying their Annual Report before the Members of 

 the Geological Society, have the pleasure of congratulating them on 

 its continued efficiency and prosperity. They have the satisfaction 

 of stating that there has been an increase of nine in the number of 

 Fellows. Twenty-nine new Fellows have been elected, and six, who 

 were elected in the previous year, have paid their subscriptions, 

 making an addition of thirty-five ordinary Fellows. The loss which 

 the Society has suffered from deaths amount to twenty, and from 

 resignations six, making a reduction of twenty-six ordinary Fellows. 

 One Honorary Member and four Foreign Members have been elected, 

 and three Foreign Members have died. The total number there- 

 fore of the Geological Society at the close of 1856, was 868 Members, 

 and at the close of the past year it consisted of 877. 



The Council have to report that the current expenditure of the 

 Society has exceeded the income by the sum of £62 8s. 8cl., but in 

 this expenditure is included the sum of s6208 lis. 6d., incurred 

 during the previous year for printing the last part of the 7th Volume 

 of the Transactions, the Journal, and Supplementary Catalogue. 

 The ordinary income during the past year has therefore exceeded the 

 expenditure by £ 146 2s. 10c?. The Exchequer Bonds for ^6200, 

 purchased in 1855, have been sold and added to the balance of the 

 Society* s -Bankers . 



The amount of the Funded Property of the Society remains the 

 same as at the close of 1856, viz. £4578 19s. 2d. t which includes 

 56500, the amount of the late Mr. Greenough's Legacy, bequeathed 

 for the purpose of defraying the expenses incidental to his donation 



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