X PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I9OO, 



there were 3 vacancies in the List of Foreign Members and 1 in the 

 List of Foreign Correspondents. During the past twelve months 

 the Society has had to lament the loss by death of 3 of its Foreign 

 Members and 2 of its Foreign Correspondents. The vacancies thus 

 caused were in part filled by the election of 6 Foreign Members and 

 8 Foreign Correspondents, but at the end of the year 1899 there 

 was still 1 vacancy in the List of Foreign Correspondents. 



The total number of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign 

 Correspondents, which stood at 1336 on December 31st, 1898, 

 had increased to 1344 by the end of 1899. 



Proceeding now to consider the Income and Expenditure of the 

 Society during the past year, the figures set forth in detail in the 

 accompanying Balance-sheet may be summarized as follows : — 



The total .Receipts, including the Balance of =£1076 0s. Sd. 

 brought forward from the previous year, amounted to .£3991 14s. 4d., 

 being ,£165 3s. 8d. more than the estimated Income. 



On the other hand, the total Expenditure during 1899 (omitting 

 the sum of £541 6s. Od. invested in India 3 per cent. Stock), 

 amounted to <£3029 14s. 6d, being ,£143 10s. 6d. more than the 

 estimated Expenditure for the year. It will be borne in mind also 

 that two items of non-recurring Expenditure are included in the 

 above-mentioned total of <£3029 14s. 6d., namely, the sum of 

 £73 10s. 5d., expended in the publication of Vol. III. of Hutton's 

 'Theory of the Earth ;' and the sum of <£200 contributed by the 

 Society, at the request of H.M. Office of Works, towards the cost of 

 the improved lavatory accommodation at the Society's Apartments. 1 



The Balance remaining available for the current year is 

 .£420 13s. 10(7. 



The proposed Redecoration of the Society's Apartments, postponed 

 in consequence of the laying- down of the new system of drainage 

 and the structural alterations to which reference has been made, 

 will be necessarily postponed again this year, as the completion of 

 the work of extending the Electric Lighting to the whole of the 

 Society's Apartments (which appears to the Council to be desirable) 

 before proceeding to Redecoration, commends itself as the most 

 economical course. A Committee nominated by the Council have 

 considered the question of the Electric Lighting, in consultation 

 with Mr. Musgrave Heaphy, C.E., F.G.S., who has once again 

 placed his great professional knowledge and experience at the 

 disposal of the Society, and it is estimated that the proposed ex- 

 tension can be carried out in a thoroughly satisfactory manner at a 

 cost of about £250. To this expenditure the sanction of the 

 Fellows is hereby requested. 



At the Ordinary Meeting of November 4th, 1896, the then 

 President announced that the late Sir Joseph Prestwich had be- 

 queathed to this Society the sum of =£800, for certain specific 

 purposes, the legacy being payable after the decease of Lady 

 Prestwich. In consequence of the lamented death of that lady, 



[ l This sum has now been repaid to the Society by H.M. Treasury.] 



