

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31sx DECEMBER, 1919. 



KEAD AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



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



4th JUNE, 1920, 



E. T. NEWTON, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, 



IN THE CHAIR. 



The Council, in presenting its Seventy-Third Annual Report, regrets that, 

 owing to present difficulties, its publications are still in arrear ; but volume 

 No. LXXII for the year 1918, containing an instalment of the Monograph of 

 Pliocene Mollusca, and the first part of a Monograph of British Bellerophontacea, 

 is now nearly ready, while most of the material for Volumes LXXIII and LXXLV 

 has already been received, and many of the illustrations have been prepared. 

 It is proposed to issue the two latter volumes, which are for the years 1919 and 

 1920, as nearly as possible together, the first containing an instalment of the 

 Monograph of Pliocene Mollusca, the concluding part of British Bellerophontacea, 

 and the first part of a Monograph of Carboniferous Insects, the second containing 

 instalments of the Monographs of Pleistocene Mammalia (Hippopotamus), and 

 Palaeozoic Asterozoa, with the concluding part of the Monograph of Carboniferous 

 Insects. 



The expenditure during the year has been much less than the income, but this 

 is due mainly to the delay in publication already mentioned, partly to the 

 inclusion of Messrs. Dulau's delayed cheque for £30 lis. Id., received in 1919 

 for the year 1918. When the Society's volumes are brought up to date, it will 



