

ANNUAL KEPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1917. 



READ AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



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



5th APRIL, 1918, 



Dr. henry woodward, F.R.S., President, 



IN THE CHAIR. 



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

 owing to the various difficulties of existing circumstances, its publications still 

 remain in arrear. The volume for 191(3 was completed in February, 1918, but its 

 publication and distribution were unfortunately delayed by the shortage of labour, 

 and it cannot be issued until a few weeks hence. There is no lack of offers of 

 Monographs to the Society, and the volume for 1917 has already been arranged 

 to contain instalments of Pliocene Mollusca, Cambrian Trilobites, Palasozoic 

 Asterozoa, and Wealden and Purbeck Fishes. The number of plates, however, 

 will be reduced to twenty, and the amount of text must also be diminished while 

 the cost of publication remains so high as at present. The expenditure during the 

 3^ear has exceeded the income by £1]2 ll.s. l]d., but this excess is met by the 

 savings of preceding years Avhen there was less activity. ■ 



Among members who have died since the last Annual Meeting, the Council 

 especially laments the loss of its Vice-President, Dr. G-eorge Jennings Hinde, 

 F.R.S. He not only contributed an important volume on British Fossil Sponges 

 to the series of Monographs, but also did great service as a member of Council 



