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The Secretary then proceeded to read the following 
Report : — 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND 
POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY OF THE WEST RIDING OF 
YORKSHIRE, PRESENTED AT THE THIRD ANNUAL 
MEETING, ON THE 23rD SEPTEMBER, 1841. 
The progress of the Society during the past year may on 
the whole be considered satisfactory. At the close of the 
last annual meeting, the number of members was 280, since 
which time 68 new members have been elected ; but, as 
within the same period there has been a loss by deaths 
and resignations of 22, the total number on the society's 
list at the close of this day's proceedings will be 326. 
The annual income of the Society will consequently be 
£211 18s. 
The Accounts, as examined by the Auditors, are given 
at the end of the Report, and exhibit the income and 
expenditure of the Society classed under the most important 
heads, from the 1st January, 1840, to the 22nd September, 
1841 : they show a balance in favour of the Society of 
£15 13s. 9d.; that there are outstanding debts, recently incur- 
red, to the amount of £72 14s. 2d., and that the subscriptions 
yet due are £251, leaving a final balance in favour of the 
Society of £193 19s. 7d. The amount of subscriptions yet 
due is undoubtedly very large ; but, when it is considered that 
the smallness of the individual subscriptions, and the dis- 
tance at which the Members reside from one another render 
it impossible to employ a paid Collector, it will be seen 
how difficult it is for the Treasurer to collect them ; but 
at the same time this difficulty would be easily obviated 
by the Members regularly transmitting their subscriptions, 
either by a post-office order, or through the Society's 
banker. 
