ANNUAL REPORT. 9 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 
February 15, 1884. 
J. W. Huts, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
ReEpoRtT oF THE Councit For 1883. 
In presenting their Report for the year 1883, the Council of the 
Geological Society think that they may fairly congratulate the 
Fellows upon a decided improvement in the state of the Society’s 
affairs, when compared with that shown in their last year’s Report. 
The Income of the Society was greater, and the Expenditure less in 
1883 than in 1882; and there was a marked increase in the number 
of Fellows elected, and especially in the number of contributing 
Fellows. 
The number of Fellows elected during the year is 60, of whom 
50 paid their fees before the end of the year, making, with 7 pre- 
viously elected Fellows who paid their fees in 1883, a total accession 
during the year of 57 Fellows. Against this we have to set the loss 
by death of 28 Fellows, and by resignation of 12 Fellows, while 
8 Fellows were removed from the list for non-payment of ‘contri- 
butions, making a total loss of 48 Fellows. This would give an 
increase upon the year of 9 Fellows, but in April last the attention 
of the Council was called to the number of names which had been 
standing for years, without any addresses, upon the List of Fellows, 
and after due consideration it was resolved that the names of all 
those Fellows whose addresses were unknown, and whose election 
dated back before the Incorporation of the Society in 1826, should 
be removed from the list of Fellows. In accordance with this 
resolution the names of 12 Fellows were removed from the list, 
producing an apparent decrease of 3 in the number of Fellows. 
The names of 3 Honorary Members, whose election dates from the 
years 1808 and 1809, were also removed. Of the 28 Fellows 
deceased 2 were compounders, and 13 non-contributing Fellows, 
while 3 non-contributing Fellows became resident; and thus the 
number of contributing Fellows is actually increased by 22, being 
now 822. 
The total number of Fellows and Foreign Members and Corre- 
spondents was 1441 at the end of the year 1882, and 1434 at the 
end of 1883. 
At the end of the year 1882 there was 1 vacancy in the list of 
Foreign Members ; and during 1883 intelligence was received of the 
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