VJii TKOCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [March I913, 



same year amounted to £3252 5s. 6d., being ,£222 7s. 6d. more 

 than the estimated Expenditure for the same year, and £165 10s. 3d. 

 less than the actual Receipts, the year closing with a Balance in 

 hand of £641 2s. 3d. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. LXYIII of 

 the Society's Journal, as also the publication of No. 18 of the List 

 of Geological Literature. The Central Bureau of the International 

 Catalogue of Scientific Literature has now accepted this List as the 

 basis of the ' British Geology ' Section of that Catalogue. 



A successful and largely attended Conversazione was held in the 

 Society's Apartments on June 26th, 1912. During the past year 

 those Apartments have been used for General or for Council 

 Meetings by the Mineralogical Society, the Palseontographical 

 Society, the Bay Society, the Geologists' Association, the Institution 

 of Mining & Metallurgy, the Institution of Mining Engineers, the 

 Institution of Water Engineers, and the British Science Guild. 



Improvements have been effected in the electric lighting arrange- 

 ments in the Meeting Boom, and the movable table which formerly 

 stood on the Presidential dais has been replaced by a rostrum of 

 oak, constructed under the supervision of H.M. Office of "Works. 

 During the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the lloyal 

 Society, the Meeting Boom was made available as a Post Office and 

 Information Bureau & Writing Boom for the use of the Delegates 

 who attended that celebration. 



Mr. Clyde H. Black resigned the Assistant Clerkship, on the 

 ground of ill-health, on March 13th, 1912 ; and, on May 15th, 

 the Council temporarily appointed Mr. Maurice St. John Hope to 

 fill the vacancy thus created, subject to confirmation by the 

 Fellows at a Special General Meeting. 



Beports have now been received from the two Museums to which 

 the Society's collections were transferred in 1911. 



The Director of the British Museum (Natural History) reports 

 as follows : — 



The collection of foreign and colonial fossils, minerals, and rock-specimens 

 was removed to the British Museum (Natural History) in June 1911, and at 

 once transferred to suitable cabinets. 



A range of cabinets containing 750 glazed, dust-proof drawers, in one of the 

 work rooms of the Department of Geology, had been specially prepared for 

 the reception of the smaller fossils which had occupied drawers in the 

 Geological Society's Museum. The fossils were arranged in geographical 

 order, drawer by drawer, exactly as in the Society's Museum, so that the 

 original MS. list, which was copied, could still be used as an index to the 

 collection. The fossils thus remained inaccessible only for the few days during 

 their removal, and the improved accommodation soon made it possible to 

 refer to them with ease. When the drawers had been labelled, the work of 

 cleaning the collection, mending broken specimens, and collating displaced 

 labels was systematically begun ; and, during subsequent months, much progress 

 has been made in putting the drawers in good order, with new trays, tubes, 

 and glass-topped boxes for all specimens which seemed to need such protection. 



