ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER 1906. 



READ AND ADOPTED AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



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



15th MARCH, 1907. 



Dit. HENRY WOODWARD, F.E.S., President, 



IN THE CHAIR. 



The Council, in presenting their Sixtieth Annual Report, have pleasure in 

 congratulating the Society on its continued prosperity. There is no decline in the 

 number or value of the monographs offered for publication, and the contributions 

 included in the volume for 1906 are no less varied than usual. This volume, which 

 was distributed in December, contains a Monograph of the " Pleistocene Bears," 

 by Prof. S. H. Reynolds; instalments of the Monographs of " Old Red Sandstone 

 Fishes," by Dr. Traquair ; of " Cretaceous Lamellibranchia," by Mr. H. Woods; and 

 of " British Graptolites," by the Misses Elles and Wood ; the concluding part of the 

 " Lower Palaeozoic Trilobites of Grrvan," by Mr. F. R. Cowper Reed ; and the first 

 part of a new Monograph of " Cambrian Trilobites," by Mr. Philip Lake. The 

 volume is illustrated by 32 plates. 



The bank balance at the beginning of the year was only £26 lis. od., and had 

 risen by December 31st to £145 bs. Od. ; but this increase was due to exceptional 

 circumstances. Owing to the crowding of the Society's stock-room by too large a 

 number of copies of certain volumes, the Council decided to offer the surplus to 

 members at one third the published price. The result was a sale of back stock on 



