ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1916. 



BEAD AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD AT THE APARTMENTS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, BURLINGTON HOUSE 



30th MARCH, 1917. 



Dr. HENRY WOODWARD, F.R.S., President, 



IN THE CHAIR. 



The Council in presenting its Seventieth Annual Report, regrets that, owing to 

 the various difficulties of existing circumstances, its publications still remain in 

 arrear. Palseontological research continues to make progress, and there is no lack 

 of offers of Monographs to the Society ; but authors are hindered by many draw- 

 backs, and the increased cost of publication necessarily reduces the amount of the 

 annual issue. The volume for 1915, which was ready for distribution in October, 

 1916, contains another instalment of Mr. W. K. Spencer's Monograph of "Palaeozoic 

 Asterozoa," with four plates, and the first part of a Monograph of " Wealden and 

 Purbeck Fishes," by Dr. A. Smith Woodward, with ten plates. The volume for 

 1916 is planned to contain instalments of the Monographs of "Pliocene Mollusca," 

 " Paleeozoic Asterozoa," " Cambrian Trilobites," " British Graptolites," and 

 " Wealden and Purbeck Fishes," altogether with twenty-six plates. 



The delay in the publications again increased the balance at the bank, and the 

 Council resolved, from patriotic motives, to invest £400 in Exchequer Bonds, 

 1920, bearing interest at 6 per cent. 



Among members who have died during the year, the Council desires especially 

 to refer to Mr. C. T. Clough, Mr. Bedford McNeill, Mr. Clement Reid, and 



