ANNUAL KEPOET OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1913. 



READ AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD AT THE APAKTMENTS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, BUELINGTON HOUSE, 



27th march, 1914. 



Dr. henry woodward, F.R.S., President, 



IN THE CHAIR. 



The Council, in presenting their .Sixty-seventli Annual Report, have pleasure 

 in recording another year's successful work. The volume for 1913 contains a 

 further instalment of the monograph of "British Graptolites," by Miss Elles and 

 Miss Wood (Mrs, Shakespear), and a Supplement to the " Lower Paleozoic Trilo- 

 bites of Girvan," by Dr. F. R. Cowper Reed, besides title-pages and indexes for 

 the "Ganoid Fishes of the British Carboniferous Formations" and "Fishes of 

 the Old Red Sandstone," by the late Dr. R. H. Traquair. Two new monographs 

 are also begun, one on the " Palaeozoic Asterozoa," by Mr. W. K. Spencer, the 

 other on the " Pliocene Mollusca," by Mr. F. W. Harmer. The illustrations are 

 more numerous than usual, the total number of plates being thirty-six, and that 

 of the text-figures also considerable. 



As in the two previous years, the volume was again delayed hy unforeseen 

 difficulties in the preparation of the contributions, and it was not ready for 

 distribution until the end of February, 1914. The analysis of the balance-sheet 

 for the year, therefore, presents some difficulty ; but it is clear that the total cost 

 of the volume for 1913 will much exceed the income for the year to which it 

 relates, and the savings of the past five years will be encroached upon. The 



