x PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL sociETy. [May 1902, 
was filled up early in the year, during the course of which the 
Society sutfered the loss, by death, of 2 of its Foreign Members. 
The vacancies thus arising were filled up, but the 2 resulting 
vacancies in the List of Foreign Correspondents still remain 
unfilled. 
The total number of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign 
Correspondents, which stood at 13834 on December 31st, 1900, had 
decreased to 1329 at the end of the year under review. 
Proceeding now to consider the Income and Expenditure of the 
Society during the first year of the twentieth century, the figures 
set forth in detail in the Balance-sheet may be summarized as 
follows :— 
The total Receipts, including the Balance of £388 14s. 10d. 
brought forward from the previous year, amounted to £3503 17s. 3d., 
being £285 14s. 10d. more than the estimated Income. 
The total Expenditure during 1901 amounted to £3100 5s. 5d., 
being £196 7s. 7d. less than the estimated Expenditure for that 
year. ‘hese figures include a very large item of non-recurring 
Expenditure, namely, the cost of Redecoration of the Society’s 
Apartments. It was estimated that this would involve an Ex- 
penditure of £500, and, as will be seen from the Balance-sheet, 
the actual cost was £508 11s. 1ld., which is perhaps as close an 
approximation to the Estimate laid before the Fellows at the last 
Annual General Meeting as could fairly be expected. 
The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. LVII and 
the commencement of Vol. LVILI of the Quarterly Journal. 
Mr. ©. Davies Sherborn, F.G.S., who, during the past year, pre- 
pared and edited the Catalogue-slips which the Society supplies to 
the Regional Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific 
Literature, has undertaken to continue this work on the Society’s 
behalf during 1902. These slips, as before explained, deal solely 
with geological papers published in the British Islands, and there- 
fore do not cover the same ground as the Society’s own Record of 
Geological Literature. 
The attention of the Council having been drawn to the necessity 
of a new catalogue of the Society’s Library, a Committee was 
recently appointed to enquire into this matter, and, after full con- 
sideration, its report was adopted by the Council in the following 
terms :— 
(1) All books in the Library relating to geology are to be catalogued. 
(2) All papers of a geological nature are to be catalogued, whether separate 
or in serials. 
(3) In the catalogue each separate publication or paper in a serial is to be 
included under three heads :—(a) Author, (>) Subject, and (¢) Locality. 
(4) A sum of £80 shall be placed on the estimates for 1902 for the commence- 
ment of the work. 
This new Catalogue is to be, in the first instance, a manuscript 
card-catalogue, the question of printing and publishing it being 
reserved for further consideration. The Council are glad to announce 
that they have secured the valuable services of Mr. C. Davies 
