GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEB. 18, 1848. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
Tue Council of the Geological Society of London have once more 
the satisfaction of commencing their Annual Report with the state- 
ment that there has been an increase in the number of its Members 
during the past year. 
The number of new Fellows elected during the year 1847, who 
have paid their admission-fees, has been 17, besides 3 elected in 
former years, whose admission-fees had not been previously paid, 
making, with the addition of two Foreign Members, an increase of 
22 new Members; one non-resident Member, whose name was erro- 
neously erased as deceased in 1838, being restored, will raise the 
increase to 23. On the other hand, there have been during the same 
period 9 deaths, including 2 foreigners, 8 resignations and 3 re- 
movals, making a decrease of 20 to be deducted from 23, leaving 
a total increase of 3 in the number of the Society during the past 
year, and raising it from 894 to 897. 
The excess of expenditure over income during the past year has 
been £41 19s. 2d. This deficiency has been occasioned by the ne- 
cessity of throwing off the remaining lithographic illustrations of the 
Transactions, an expense amounting to £55 17s., not calculated on 
in preparing the estimates, and which will not recur. 
The number of living compounders at the close of 1846 was 128 ; 
it has been increased during the past year to 130, one compounder 
having died and three Fellows having compounded during that 
period. Two of these compositions, with one received in 1846 
too late to be invested during that year, have been funded during 
the past year. The total amount received from these 1380 com- 
pounders is £4095. The estimated value of the funded property at 
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