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these reduced terms to the value of £76 Is. Id. — a sum which formed a welcome 

 addition to the Society's funds. The Society is also indebted to the generosity of 

 the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, which presented the five plates 

 to illustrate Dr. Traquair's Monograph of " Old Red Sandstone Fishes." Other 

 donations were received from Prof. Charles Lapworth, Mr. F. R. Cowper Reed, 

 and Mr. Henry Woods. Without these additional sources of income, the 

 expenditure on the volume for 1906 would have about equalled the total receipts 

 from normal sources of the year. 



The thanks of the Society are due, not only to the several donors mentioned, 

 but also to the Council of the Geological Society, for permission both to store the 

 stock of back volumes and to hold the Council meetings and the Annual General 

 Meeting in their apartments. 



Each year the Society sustains serious losses by death, and during 1906 the 

 Council had to lament the death of two of its members — the Rev. J. F. Blake and 

 Mr. Thomas Leighton. Mr. Blake was an accomplished geologist and palasontologist, 

 and had contributed to the Society's publications the first part of a monograph of 

 the Cornbrash fauna, which, unfortunately, remains unfinished. Mr. Leighton 

 added to his scientific attainments wide experience in business, which he was 

 always ready to place at the Council's disposal. Among other active supporters, 

 Miss Caroline Birley and Mr. W. Dickinson have also died since the last Annual 

 Meeting. 



In conclusion, it is proposed that the retiring members of Council be Messrs. 

 Bather, Harmer, and Reed ; that the new members be Mr. J. Hopkinson, 

 Mr. W. D. Lang, Mr. H. Woods, and Mr. G. W. Young; that the President be 

 Dr. Henry Woodward; the Treasurer, Dr. G. J. Hinde ; and the Secretary, 

 Dr. A. Smith Woodward. 



Annexed is the Balance-sheet. 



