ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



February 16th, 1923. 



Prof. Albert Charles Seward, Sc.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Rebort op the Council eor 1922. 



During the year 84 new Fellows were elected into the Society 

 (28 more than iq, 1921). Of the Fellows elected in 1922, 67 

 paid their Admission Fees before the end of that 3 r ear, and, of 

 the Fellows who had been elected in the previous year, 10 paid 

 their Admission Fees in 1922, making the total accession of new 

 Fellows during the past year amount to 77 (6 more than in 1921). 

 . Allowing for the loss of 41 Fellows (14 resigned, 24 deceased, 

 and 3 removed), it will be seen that there is an increase of 36 

 in the number of Fellows (as compared with an increase of 14 in 

 1921). 



The total number of Fellows is, therefore, at present 1279, 

 made up as follows: Compounders 195 (3 less than in 1921); 

 Contributing Fellows 1075 (39 more than in 1921) ; and JSTon- 

 Contributing Fellows 9 (the same as in 1921). 



Turning to the Lists of Foreign Members and Foreign Corre- 

 spondents, the Council announces with regret the decease during 

 the past year of Senator Giovanni Capellini, Commendatore Arturo 

 Issel, and Dr. Hans Reusch, Foreign Members, and of Prof. 

 Theodor Liebisch and Prof. Ernst Weinschenk, Foreign Correspon- 

 dents. There are now six vacancies in the list of Foreign Members, 

 and fourteen vacancies in the list of Foreign Correspondents. 



The total Receipts from all ordinary sources of income amounted 

 to £4110 7s. 8^., and the ordinary Expenditure of the year to 

 £3806 16s. 10fZ. In addition, there was Special Expenditure on 

 arrears of publication amounting to £385 10s. Od., and there were 

 Special Receipts amounting to £175 6s. 2d., including a grant of 

 £100 from the Royal Society (in respect of the List of Geological 

 Literature for 1914) and transfers from the Sorby and Hudleston 

 Bequests. 



Vol. LXXVIII of the Quarterly Journal for 1922 was com- 

 pleted by the publication of the fourth part on December 30th of 

 that year. It contained thirteen papers, published at a cost of 

 £1082 5s. S3. These papers include all but three of those read 

 before the Society up to the end of December 1921. There now 

 remain outstanding about twenty papers which have been read 

 during the present Session and in 1921. The Council, recognizing 



