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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOB THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1918. 



READ AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



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



25th APRIL, 1919, 



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



IN THE CHAIR. 



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

 owing to the circumstances of the time, its publications are still in arrear; but 

 since the last Annual Meeting a whole volume, No. LXXI, for the year 1917, has 

 been prepared, and it will now soon be distributed. This comprises the completion 

 of the Monograph of Wealden and Purbeck Fishes, with six plates, the title-page 

 and index to Volume I of the Pliocene Mollusca, and instalments of the Monographs 

 of Cambrian Trilobites and Palaeozoic Asterozoa, illustrated respectively with 

 four plates and with numerous text-figures. Much matter is in hand for the next 

 volume, with which comparatively rapid progress may be expected. 



The expenditure daring the year has again exceeded the income, but to the 

 unusually small balance of £34 3s. bd. should be added the sum of £30 lis. Id. 

 due from Messrs. Dulau on account of sales, not received until after December 31st. 

 It should also be remembered that the total sum of £610 10s. 6d. was temporarily 

 invested in War Loan and Exchequer Bonds, and will be available to pay for the 

 volume in arrear when it can be overtaken. The high cost of labour and materials, 

 however, necessarily reduces the amount of the Society's publications, and there is 

 no prospect of a return to former conditions. 



