ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st MARCH, 1905. 



READ AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



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



16th JUNE, 1905. 



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



IN THE CHAIR. 



The Council, in presenting their Fifty-eighth Annual Report, have plea- 

 sure in congratulating the Society on its continued prosperity. The marked 

 activity in the study of British fossils, to which they referred last year, still 

 continues ; and there is no decline in the number or value of the monographs 

 offered to the Council for publication. The volume for 1904 contains the 

 second instalment of Part II of Dr. Traquair's " Fishes of the Old Red Sand- 

 stone," and another part of Vol. I of Mr. Buckman's " Inferior Oolite Ammonites," 

 both of which are now nearly completed. There is the final part of Dr. Wheelton 

 Hind's " Carboniferous Lamellibranchiata," which iioav lacks only the index and 

 title-page. There are also instalments of the Monographs of Cretaceous Lamelli- 

 branchia, Girvan Trilobites, and British Graptolites. 



The volume for 1904 was arranged to contain only thirty-seven plates, 

 and it was anticipated that the cost of its production would thus be within 

 the limits of the Society's ordinary income. The accompanying letterpress, 

 however, proved to be unusually extensive, with costly tables and inset blocks. 

 The Council therefore regret that they have to record a serious and unexpected 



