ANNUAL HE PORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING .31st DECEMBER, 1909. 



READ AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



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



18th march, 1910. 



Dr. HENRY WOODWARD, F.RS., President, 



IN THE CHAIR. 



The Council, in presenting their Si.xty-third Annual Report, are glad to be able 

 to record the usual satisfactory progress in the Society's work. The volume for 

 1909, which was issued in December, comprises instalments of the Monographs of 

 " Pleistocene Mammalia " (" Canidre," by Prof. S. H. Reynolds) ; " Carboniferous 

 Ganoid Fishes," by Dr. R. H. Traquair ; " English Chalk Fishes," by Dr. A. S. 

 Woodward ; and " Cretaceous Lamellibranchia," by Mr. H. Woods. It also 

 includes title-pages and indexes of two old Monographs — " The Mollusca of the 

 Chalk — Cephalopoda," by Mr. D. Sharpe, and " British Beleninitidn3 — Jurassic," 

 by Prof. J. Phillips. 



AVhen the volume for the year was planned as many plates were arranged as 

 appeared to be justified l>y the Society's income, and it was anticipated that the 

 corresponding text Avould reach the average amount. The nature of the subjects, 

 however, proved to necessitate less text than usual, and the cost of the volume was 

 therefore less than the estimate. Five single and two double plates, to illustrate 

 Carboniferous Fishes, were also paid for ])y the Carnegie Trust for the Universities 

 of Scotland, to whom the Society's thanks are due. The small balance standing 



