ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



February 19, 1886. 



Prof. T. a BoNNEY, D.Sc, LL.D., P.E.S., President, in the Chair 



Repoet oe the CouisrciL poe 1885. 



In presenting their Eeport for the year 1885, it is with much 

 pleasure that the Council of the Geological Society find themselves 

 able to lay before the Society a statement of afi'airs rather more 

 cheering than those that they have been under the necessity of 

 bringing forward for some years past. Both financially and as 

 regards the number of Pellows, the position of the Society is 

 decidedly better than at the last Anniversary Meeting. 



The number of Pellows elected during the year is 54, of whom 

 40 paid their fees before the end of the year, making, with 11 

 previously elected Fellows who paid their fees in 1885, a total 

 accession during the year of 51 Fellows. Against this we have 

 to set the loss by death of 27 Fellows, and by resignation of 16 

 Fellows, while 3 Fellows were removed from the list for non- 

 payment of contributions, making a total loss of 46 Fellows. There 

 is thus an actual increase of 5 in the number of Fellows of the 

 Society. Of the 27 Fellows deceased 7 were compounders, and 

 9 non-contributing Fellows ; the number of contributing Fellows is 

 increased by 15, being now 831. 



The total number of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign 

 Correspondents was 1420 at the end of the year 1884, and 1425 

 at the close of 1885. 



In 1885 intelligence was received of the decease of 2 Foreign 

 Members, and one of the vacancies so caused was filled up during 

 the year. The list of Foreign Correspondents showed 2 vacancies 

 at the end of 1884, and intelligence was received in 1885 of the 

 decease of another Foreign Correspondent. These losses, with the 

 filling up of the vacancy in the list of Foreign Members, caused, 

 in all, 4 vacancies among the Foreign Correspondents of the Society, 

 3 of which were filled up within the year. Thus at the close of 

 the year 1885, there was one vacancy in the list of Foreign 

 Members, and one in that of Foreign Correspondents. 



