amounted to £1 6s. Tho Society now holds an investment for the first time in its 

 history. 



The total cost of the printing, illustrating, binding, and distribution of the 

 volume for 1902 was £563 6s. 8d. It included no less than forty-eight plates, of 

 which six (illustrating the Cave Hyaena) had been left on the stone for more than 

 thirty years. Other old drawings still remain to be used, and the Council hope to 

 be able to arrange for the publication of these without much further delay. Illus- 

 trations must necessarily be prepared sometimes well in advance, but special care 

 is now taken to prevent their progressing more rapidly than the explanatory text. 



The reduction in the receipts from subscriptions and sales (a loss of £91 3s. 5d. 

 compared with last year) is probably to be explained by the fact that some sub- 

 scribers contribute at irregular times, occasionally before, occasionally after 

 March 31st, and that purchases are not always made with regularity. At the same 

 time, several Public Libraries have again notified their intention to cease their 

 subscriptions, and the new members barely compensate for the resignations. For 

 the success of the Society's work it is still necessary to enlist the sympathies and 

 obtain the personal subscriptions of all who are interested in the progress of 

 palaeontological science. The older members are being rapidly removed by death, 

 and the Society has this year to deplore the loss of a Vice-President, the Rev. Dr. 

 Wiltshire, who died on October 27th, 1902. His valuable services as Secretary, 

 for a period of 37 years, will always be gratefully remembered. 



The scientific work of the Society proceeds with undiminished vigour, and the 

 Council have the gratification of receiving more offers of valuable matter than 

 they can accept for immediate publication. Active progress is at present being 

 made with Monographs of Pleistocene Mammalia, Cretaceous and Palaeozoic 

 Fishes, Carboniferous and Jurassic Mollusca, the Cornbrash Fauna, Ordovician and 

 Cambrian Trilobites, and Graptolites. Other subjects are also being treated more 

 slow 1\ . 



Thanks are due to the Geological Society for permission both to store the stock 

 i)t' back volumes and fco hold the Council Meetings and the Annual Genera] 

 Meel ing in bheir aparl incuts. 



