President, the Rev. Professor Buckland. 307 



Foreign Secretary. — H. T. De la Beche, Esq. F.R.S. & L.S. 



Treasurer. — John Taylor, Esq. F.R.S. & L.S. 



Council. — Arthur Aikin, Esq. F.L.S. ; Francis Baily, Esq. F.R.S. 

 L.S.; Viscount Cole, M.P. F.R.S. ; W. H. Fitton, M.D. F.R.S. L.S. ; 

 W. Hopkins, Esq. M.A. F.R.S.; R. Hutton, Esq. M.P. M.R.I.A. ; 

 Charles Lyell, Esq. F.R.S. L.S. ; William H. Miller, Esq. M.A. Pro- 

 fessor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge ; R. I. Mur- 

 chison, Esq. F.R.S. L.S. ; E. W. W. Pendarves, Esq. M.P. F.R.S. ; 

 Philip Pusev, Esq. M.P. F.R.S.; George Rennie, Esq. F.R.S.; 

 Daniel Sharpe, Esq. F.L.S. ; Rev. Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S. L.S. 

 Woodwardian Professor in the University of Cambridge. 



Address to the Geological Society, delivered at the Anniversary, on 

 the 21st of February, 1840, by the Rev. Professor Buckland, 

 D.D., F.R.S., Corresponding Member of the Institute of France^ 

 President of the Society, 



Gentlemen, 

 By the Report just read, you have seen that the state of our 

 Society is one of steady and salutary progression ; forty-three new 

 Members have been added to the List of our Fellows, from which 

 seventeen have been removed by death or resignation, leaving our 

 actual number 768, with an increase of twenty-six during the last 

 year. The vacancies that have occurred upon our foreign list have 

 been supplied by three highly distinguished cultivators of science 

 on the Continent, each pre-eminent for his successful labours in high 

 departments of our subject, namely: 



Major Puillon de Boblaye, in Positive Geology, 



Professor Adolphe Brongniart, in Vegetable Palaeontology, 



Professor Gustave Rose, in Crystallography and Mineral Analysis. 



We are rich in property, though our funds are, at this moment, 

 loWj but they will speedily be repaired by the sale of two large 

 and costly parts which have been added to our Transactions. 



The Reports of the Library and Collections in our Museum are 

 satisfactory. The chief additions to the former consist of presents 

 from Authors and Members of the Society. Our principal bene- 

 factor has been Mr. Greenough, who has given us a Collection of 

 the older Authors, — supplying many of our deficiencies in the 

 Literature of Geology and Mineralogy. Considerable progress has 

 been made in the arrangement of the Cabinets by our Sub-Curator, 

 Mr. Woodward, under the superintendence and directions of Mr. 

 Lonsdale ; one hundred and sixty drawers of rock specimens and 

 fossil remains having been labelled, and in part catalogued, since the 

 meeting of last year. It is satisfactory to find that the number 

 of persons who come to study our Collections has been much in- 

 creased. 



Our entire establishment continues to receive the inestimable 

 advantages it has long enjoyed; from the zealous superintendence, 

 and scientific acquirements of our Curator, Mr. Lonsdale. 



Our Wollaston Medal has been awarded to Professor Dumont, 

 for his Map, Sections and Memoir on the Geological Constitution 



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