lxxx PROCEEDINGS OF THE Se SOCIETY. 
general fund collected. Though these societies have become popular 
of late, perhaps there is as yet no mstance in which a society of a 
_ similar kind has numbered so many members in so short a time, 
showing that no little general interest is entertained for the paleeonto- 
logical “works to be published by it. Though only founded on the 
23rd of March, 1847, four hundred members had been enrolled in 
June of the same year, and the Palzontographical Society now 
numbers six hundred and one subscriptions to it. In consequence 
of this support two works will be distributed this year to the mem- 
bers, one a Monograph, by Mr. Searles Wood, of the Univalves in 
the Tertiary Deposit named the Crag, illustrated by about 550 
figures, and another by Professor Bell, on the Reptilia of the Lon- 
don Clay, also properly illustrated. It is but justice to our col- 
league Mr. Bowerbank to state, that the formation of the Palzeon- 
tographical Society is due to him, and that to his continued zeal and 
untiring activity it is indebted for its present prosperous condition. 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. 
Being charged by Her Majesty’s Government with the general 
direction of this branch of the public service, I should feel some - 
hesitation in alluding to the aid which, by its progress, the Geo- 
logical Survey was affording to the advance of our science in this 
country, if it were not abundantly evident that the members of this 
Society cheerfully co-operate with the Survey, and consider that by 
this branch of the public service objects are accomplished which 
could not be otherwise attained; so that the purposes for which we 
are here associated are promoted by the labours of the Survey. 
The progress of the Survey has during the past year been consider- 
able, and maps will soon be published completing South Wales, and 
extending into North Wales. The map of Herefordshire will be 
finished, and a large part of that of Shropshire published. Somerset- 
shire will be completed, with adjoining portions of Dorsetshire and 
Wiltshire. The knowledge necessary for the maps of North Wales 
and of Derbyshire is considerably advanced, and these will follow 
the above-mentioned. 
With respect to the Irish branch of the Survey, a map of the 
county of Wicklow, with numerous sections, including those, with 
proper plans, of the more interesting mines, will speedily be pub- 
lished. The sections extend to the counties of Carlow and Kilkenny, 
and illustrate the mode of occurrence of some of the coal-fields in 
the latter county. It is hoped that geologists will be satisfied with 
the manner in which sections on a true scale,—that is, the scale for 
height and distance the same,—illustrate the mode in which granite 
has upborne masses of the older deposits among which it has been 
protruded, altering the latter, and sometimes entangling or enveloping 
huge fragments of them. The publication of the maps of Carlow 
and Wexford will follow that of Wicklow. * 
