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PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



February 18, 1881. 



Robert Etheridge, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Report of the Council eor 1880. 



In presenting their Report for the year 1880, the Council of the 

 Geological Society have much gratification in announcing to the 

 Fellows that the affairs of the Society are in a much more satis- 

 factory position than at the dates of their last two Reports. 



The number of new Fellows elected during the year is 60, of 

 whom 49 paid their fees before the end of the year, making, with 

 14 previously elected Fellows who paid their fees in 1880, a total 

 accession during the year of 63 Fellows. Against this we have to 

 record the loss by death of 34 Fellows, and by resignation of only 

 9 Fellows, whilst 5 Fellows were removed from the list for non- 

 payment of Contributions, making a total loss of 48 Fellows. On 

 the year, therefore, we have an increase of 15 Fellows. But as of 

 the 34 Fellows deceased, 9 were compounders, and 9 con-contri- 

 buting Fellows, the number of contributing Fellows is actually 

 increased by 25, being now 769. 



The total number of Fellows and Foreign Members and Corre- 

 spondents was 1415 at the end of the year 1879, and 1432 at the 

 end of the year 1880. 



During the year 1880 intelligence was received of the death of 

 1 Foreign Member and of 2 Foreign Correspondents. As two 

 vacancies existed in the list of Foreign Members at the end of the 

 year 1879, three Foreign Members were elected in 1880 ; and the 

 vacancies caused by these elections and by death in the list of 

 Foreign Correspondents, were all filled up during the year. 



The total Receipts for the year 1880 were £2706 Is. 7cL, being 

 =£130 15s. 7d. more than the estimated Income for the year. The 

 total Expenditure, on the other hand, was £2520 18s. 9c?., or 

 £154 4s. Id. less than the estimate for the year. The actual excess 

 of Income over Expenditure was thus .£185 2s. lOd. ; and of this 

 amount a sum of £98 10s. was invested in the purchase of £100 

 Consols. 



The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. XXXVI. of 

 the Quarterly Journal and the commencement of Vol. XXXVII. 

 The Council have further to announce the completion of the 



