ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1905. 



BEAD AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD AT THE APARTMENTS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, BURLINGTON HOUSE, 



30th MARCH, 190G. 



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



IN THE CHAIR. 



In accordance with the Council's resolution last year to balance the Society's 

 accounts on 31st December instead of on olst March as heretofore, their present- 

 Report refers only to the period of nine months between 1st April and 31st 

 December, f 905. Notwithstanding- this shortness of period, however, the Council 

 have the gratification of recording a small balance in hand at the end of the year 

 after paying the cost of the volume for 1905. Owing to the exceptional 

 expenditure on recent volumes, it was necessary to reduce the plates to about the 

 normal number, namely, twenty-eight altogether, of which eleven had already been 

 drawn and paid for during previous years. The volume contains instalments of 

 the Monographs of " Cretaceous Asteroidea," by Mr. W. K. Spencer (following the 

 late Mr. Percy Sladen), of " Cretaceous Lamellibranchia," by Mr. H. Woods, and 

 of "Inferior Oolite Ammonites," by Mr. S. S. Buckman; also the first part of a 

 new " Monograph of the Fauna of the Cornbrash," by Rev. J. F. Blake, and the 

 title-page and index of the second volume of Dr. Wheelton Hind's " Monograph 

 of Carboniferous Lamellibranchiata." 



The Balance Sheet does not admit of direct comparison with those of previous 



