ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31sr DECEMBER, 1908. 
READ AND ADOPTED AT THE 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 
HELD AT THE APARTMENTS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, BURLINGION HOUSE, 
19TH MARCH, 1909. 
Dr. HENRY WOODWARD, F.R.S., Prestpent, 
IN THE CHAIR. 
Tun Council, in presenting their Sixty-second Annual Report, are glad to be 
able to record satisfactory progress in the Society’s work. The volume for 1908, 
which was issued in December, contains the final part of another Monograph, that 
of “Cretaceous Asteroidea,” besides a small separate work, “ [llustrations of Type 
Specimens of Inferior Oolite Ammonites,’ which may be regarded as a supple- 
ment to the volume devoted to those Ammonites already published. It also 
comprises instalments of the Monographs of ‘‘ English Chalk Fishes,” by Dr. A. 8. 
Woodward; of ‘Cretaceous Lamellibranchia,”’ by Mr. H. Woods; of “ Cambrian 
Trilobites,’ by Mr. P. Lake; and of “ British Graptolites,” by the Misses Hlles 
and Wood, edited by Prof. Lapworth. The Council have received numerous 
proposals for new Monographs, but are desirous, so far as possible, to complete 
those in progress before entering upon further undertakings. 
Owing to the unexpected illness of a contributor who had promised his instal- 
ment, the volume for 1908 is smaller than usual; and six of the plates with which 
it is illustrated were drawn and paid for during previous years. The cost of 
publication was therefore below the estimate, and a small balance remains for use 
