ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER 1911. 



READ AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



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



22nd MARCH, 1912. 



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



IN THE GHAIE. 



The Council, in presenting their Sixty-fifth Annual Report, have the satisfaction 

 to record good progress in the Society's work. The volume for 1.911 includes the 

 final instalments of the monographs of " English Chalk Fishes," by Dr. A. S. 

 Woodward, and of " The Pleistocene Mammalia," Vol. II, by Professor S. H. 

 Reynolds ; while the issue of the title-page and index for the " British Fossil 

 Sponges," Vol. I, by Dr. Gr. J. Hinde, now permits the binding of that work. 

 Instalments of the " Carboniferous Ganoid Fishes," by Dr. R. H. Traquair, and of 

 " Cretaceous Lamellibranchia," by Mr. H. Woods, also nearly complete two mono- 

 graphs which have been in course of preparation for many years. The total 

 number of plates is less than usual ; but this deficiency is more than compensated 

 by the very large series of text -figures of Cretaceous Lamellibranchia, which seem 

 to be more useful than plates for the illustration of the specimens of Inoceramus 

 described. 



Owing to unforeseen delay in the receipt of one of the contributions, the 

 volume for 1911 was not ready for distribution until the end of February, 1912, 

 and the expense of binding and some of the printing could not be included in the 

 balance-sheet for the year. At the same time it must be noted that similar delay 



