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in consequence of the Non-Payment of the Arrears of their Annual 

 Contributions. 



The President then said : — 



' I have to announce that the Council have, with regret, decided that it will 

 not be possible to continue the free issue of all publications to the Fellows. 

 The great increase in the cost of all charges connected with publications makes 

 it necessary, either to secure a considerable increase of income, or to submit 

 to a very material reduction of publication. Believing that the latter course 

 would be the least acceptable to the Society, the possible means of effecting 

 the former were examined, and of them the most suitable appeared to be that 

 of putting a price on the Journal to those Fellows who wished to receive it. 

 No change in the present practice will be made during the current year, but 

 from January 1 st next the Quarterly Journal will only be distributed regularly 

 to those Fellows who pay a subscription of Ten Shillings for the regular issue 

 of four numbers ; those who do not desire the complete series will be able to 

 obtain the particular numbers in which they are interested at the price of Three 

 Shillings per number if applied for within a year of publication, and thereafter 

 at the price fixed for Fellows. As a partial set-off to the cessation of free 

 distribution of the Journal, the Abstracts of Proceedings will, from the com- 

 mencement of next Session, be despatched regularly to all Fellows instead of 

 only to those resident in the United Kingdom. 



' The adoption of these measures will, by the combined effect of receipts 

 for publications distributed and savings on those not distributed, enable the 

 work of the Society to be carried on without any large reduction in the issue 

 of original contributions to Geology. They appear to the Council to be 

 preferable to a permanent increase in the Annual Contributions of Fellows, 

 from the ease with which the charge can be altered and abolished when the 

 financial position enables this to be accomplished.' 



The following communication was read : — 



' The Scandinavian Mountain Problem.' By Olaf Holtedahl. 

 (Communicated by Sir Archibald Geikie, O.M., K.C.B., F.R.S., 

 For.Sec.G.S.) 



