PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



February 16, 1883. . 

 J. W. Htjlke, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Report oe the Council eor 1882. 



In presenting their Report for the year 1882, the Council of the 

 Geological Society regret that they are unable to announce to the 

 Fellows any marked general improvement in the condition of the 

 Society's affairs, as compared with that shown in their last year's 

 Report. In one particular, indeed, there is, unfortunately, a falling 

 off, the number of Fellows of the Society having suffered an actual, 

 although very small, decrease. This continued depression is evi- 

 dently due to the same causes that were indicated last year, and 

 therefore, it is to be hoped, of a temporary nature ; and it is some 

 satisfaction to find that the Income of the Society during the past 

 year showed an increase upon that of the year 1881. 



The number of Fellows elected during the year is 45, of whom 

 36 paid their fees before the end of the year, making, with 7 pre- 

 viously elected Fellows who paid their fees in 1882, a total accession 

 during the year of only 43 Fellows. Against this we have to set 

 the loss by death of 27 Fellows, and by resignation of 13 Fellows, 

 while 4 Fellows were removed from the list for non-payment of 

 contributions, making a total loss of 44 Fellows. On the year, 

 therefore, there is a loss of 1 Fellow. But of the 27 Fellows 

 deceased, 5 were compounders, and 10 non-contributing Fellows, 

 while 1 non-contributing Fellow became resident ; and thus the 

 number of contributing Fellows is actually increased by 9, being 

 now 800. 



The total number of Fellows and Foreign Members and Corre- 

 spondents was 1443 at the end of the year 1881, and 1441 at the 

 end of 1882. 



At the end of the year 1881 there was one vacancy in the list of 

 Foreign Members ; and during 1882 intelligence was received of the 

 death of 2 Foreign Members. Two of these vacancies in the list of 

 Foreign Members were filled up during the year. The death of a 

 Foreign Correspondent in 1882, and the filling-up of the above- 

 mentioned vacancies in the list of Foreign Members produced three 

 vacancies in the list of Foreign Correspondents, two of which were 

 filled up during the year. Thus at the close of 1882 there was one 



