ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1910. 



READ AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



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



24th MARCH, 1911. 



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



IN THE CHAIR. 



The Council, in presenting their Sixty-fourth Annual Report, have pleasure in 

 recording another year's successful work. The volume for 1910 comprises instal- 

 ments of the monographs of " Carboniferous Ganoid Fishes," by Dr. Traquair ; 

 " English Chalk Fishes," by Dr. A. S.Woodward; "Cretaceous Lamellibranchia," 

 by Mr. H. Woods ; and " British Graptolites," by Miss Elles and Miss Wood 

 (Mrs. Shakespear). It also includes a small complete monograph of " British 

 Carboniferous Araclmida," by Mr. R. I. Pocock, which the Council think will prove 

 acceptable as a valuable contribution to our knowledge of these rare fossils. All 

 the large monographs of which parts are included in this volume, are now 

 approaching completion, and the Council hope soon to begin the publication of 

 other works which have been in preparation for some time. 



Owing to unforeseen delay in the completion of some of the contributions, the 

 volume for 1910 was not issued until the end of January, 1911, and as a con- 

 sequence the expense of binding and some of the printing (amounting to about 

 £100) could not be included in the balance-sheet for the year, which, as usual, has 

 been brought down to the end of December. The total expenditure on the volume, 

 however, as now ascertained, only slightly exceeds the actual income, though it 



