ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st MARCH, 1004. 



BEAD AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



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



17th JUNE, 1904. 



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



IN THE CHAIR. 



The Council, in presenting their Fifty-seventh Annual Report, have much 

 pleasure in referring to the activity which at present prevails in the study of 

 British fossils. The monographs offered to them during the year were consider- 

 ably more numerous and extensive than they were able to accept for immediate 

 publication. They decided, however, to follow the precedent of 1902 in expending 

 some of the balance which still remained to the Society's credit after their recent 

 investment. They were thus enabled to issue another large volume illustrated by 

 no less than forty-eight plates. This publication for the year 1903 included the 

 completion of Dr. Foord's " Carboniferous Cephalopoda of Ireland," and of the 

 first volume of Mr. Woods' " Cretaceous Lamellibranchia." It also comprised 

 instalments of the monographs of English Chalk Fishes, Carboniferous Lamelli- 

 branchiata, and British Graptolites, besides the first part of a monograph of the 

 Lower Palaeozoic Trilobites of Grirvan. 



While, however, the scientific work of the Society affords reason for gratifica- 

 tion, the Council regret to have to record a continued decrease in the annual 

 income. The total receipts during the financial year were only £485 9s. (id., or 



