ANIfFAL KEPORT. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



February 20, 1885. 



Prof. T. G. Bonnet, D.Sc, LL.D., P.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Eeport op the Council for 1884. 



In presenting their Eeport for the year 1884, the Council of the 

 Geological Society regret to have to state that the improvement 

 which they thought might he recognized in the position of the 

 Society when they drew up their last Annual Eeport has not been 

 maintained. They can only once more express the hope that this 

 state of things is due chiefly, if not entirely, to the wide-spread 

 depression which still prevails, and that in the course of a year or 

 two a revival of the general prosperity of the country may place the 

 afl'airs of the Society once more upon a satisfactory footing. 



The number of PePows elected during the year is only 48, of 

 whom 34 paid their fees before the end of the year, making, with 9 

 previously elected Fellows who paid their fees in 1884, a total 

 accession during the year of only 43 Pellows. Against even this 

 small number we have to set the loss by death of 32 Fellows, and 

 by resignation of 18 Fellows, while 8 Fellows were removed from 

 the list for non-payment of contributions, making a total loss of 

 58 Fellows. There is thus a decrease of 15 in the number of 

 Fellows. Of the 32 Fellows deceased 6 were compounders, and 

 7 non-contributing Fellows, and as 1 non-contributing Fellow 

 became Eesident, and another resigned, the number of contributing 

 Fellows is reduced by 6, being now 816. 



The total number of Fellows and Foreign Members and Corre- 

 spondents was 1434 at the close of the year 1883, and 1420 at the 

 end of 1884. 



At the end of the year 1883 there were 2 vacancies in the list of 

 Foreign Members; and during 1884 intelligence was received of 

 the decease of 2 Foreign Members. Four Foreign Members were 

 elected during the year to fill up these vacancies. 



In the list of Foreign Correspondents there was 1 vacancy at the 

 close of 1883, and intelligence was received of the death of 2 more 

 during the year 1884. These losses, with the filling up of the 

 above-mentioned vacancies in the list of Foreign Members, pro- 



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