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had been made on the Conchiferae and Foraminifera of the Crag, the Shells of the London 

 Clay, the Fossil Reptilia of Great Britain, the Crustacea of the London Clay Formation, the 

 Corals of the Secondary Formation, the Shells of the Fresh-water Formation above the Crag, 

 the Tertiary Shells of the Clyde, the Spongiadse of the Chalk Formation, the Fossils of the 

 Magnesian Limestone Formation, the Belemnites of the British Formations, the Fossil 

 Testacea of the Great Oolite, and the Entomostracous Animals of the Chalk, Ganlt, and Green- 

 sand Formations. 



In the second Annual Report, read 23rd March, 1849, there is evidence the Society 

 had become established. The Local Secretaries are spoken of as being forty in number, and 

 the enrolled Members as many as 732. It is added that 615 persons had paid for the first 

 volume, and that the receipts for the year 1848-9 were (irrespective of the balance from 

 the previous year) £690 19s. Each succeeding year realised larger funds, until in 1867 the 

 maximum was reached, when the balance-sheet showed an amount of £908 5s. from 

 subscriptions and £1042 8s. 4d. as a total. In 1864 the late Mr. Beriah Botfield, M.P., left 

 a legacy of £10 10s. to the Society. A similar gift has not been repeated. 



At the end of twenty years the subscriptions had produced £14,097 19s. 7d., 

 and the expenditure had amounted to £13,969 17s. 3d. Twenty years later the 

 whole of the subscriptions showed a total of £27,385 15s. 4d., and the expenses 

 £27,140 17s. 6d.; whilst at the close of the forty-ninth financial year the sum of the 

 subscriptions was £33,459 Os. 4d., and the money expended had been £32,549 9s. 8d. It is 

 remarkable that so much money could have been subscribed in the forty-nine years, seeing 

 that the whole of the original members had, with eight exceptions, passed away. Of the latter, 

 four are still subscribers. At present the subscriptions from libraries are exceeding those 

 from private individuals, in the proportion of about twenty-four to twenty-one. This change, 

 so different from what had been the case in the beginning, is mainly due to the fact that of 

 late years strong efforts have been made to secure the accession of the free libraries. 



Of the officers of the Society, the Presidents have been five, — Sir Henry De la Beche, 

 from 1847 to 1855; Mr. W. J. Hamilton, from 1856 to 1867; Dr. Bowerbank, from 1868 

 to 1876 ; Sir Richard Owen, from 1877 to 1892 ; and Professor Huxley, from 1893 to 1895. 

 (It is proposed that Dr. Henry Woodward be the sixth President.) The Treasurers have 

 been two,— Mr. S. V. Wood, from 1847 to 1884; and Mr. R. Etheridge, from 1885 to the 

 present time. The Secretaries have been three, — Professor Morris, for two months in 1847; 

 Dr. Bowerbank, from 1847 to 1862 ; and the Rev. Professor Wiltshire, from 1863 to the 

 present time. 



The publications of the Society cover a large area of information, and are illustrated by 

 more than nineteen hundred plates. The contents consist of over fourteen thousand pages, 

 and define six thousand seven hundred species. The first Monograph which was issued was 

 that of the Univalves of the Crag. This was followed by others (generally in parts), which, 

 if taken in the order of publication, treat of the Reptilia of the London Clay, the Eocene 

 MoUusca, the Entomostraca of the Cretaceous Formations, Fossils of the Permian, the 

 Fossil Corals, the Mollusca of the Great Oolite, the Fossil Brachiopoda, the Radiaria of 

 the Tertiaries, the Cephalopoda of the Chalk, the Fossil Balanidee, the Reptilia of the 

 Wealden, the Tertiary Entomostraca, the Oolitic Echinodermata, the Fossil Crustacea, 

 the Reptilia of the Purbeck Limestones and Kimmeridge Clay, the Ti'ilobites, the 

 Belemnites, the Pleistocene Mammalia, the Crag Foraminifera, the Fossil Merostomata, 

 the Old Red Fishes, the Crag Cetacea, the Cretaceous Echinodermata, the Mammalia of the 

 Mesozoic Strata, the Fossil Trigoniae, the Post-Tertiary and the Carboniferous Entomostraca, 

 the Carboniferous and Permian Foraminifera, the Carboniferous Ganoid Fishes, the 



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