AT THE 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 
HELD ON 
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13th, 1856, 
GILBERT SANDERS, ESQ., 
IN THE CHAIR, 
The following Report from the Council was read and adopted : 
Your Council offers the usual list of the Members actually belong¬ 
ing to the Society, from which it appears that the effective strength 
of the Society consists at present of 165 Members. 
Honorary Members,.5 
Corresponding Members,.4 
Life Members, .43 
Annual Members,.82 
Associates,..31 
Total, . . . .165 
In the first Appendix to this Report, a statement of the total 
Members gained and lost during the year is given, from which it 
appears, that we have gained nine new Members to our list during 
that period. 
The following view of the progress of the Society, for the past 
ten years, is submitted to your attention, as it appears to your 
Council to afford an encouraging prospect of our future success; 
as the Journal of the Society proves that the additional Members 
gained by us from year to year have been not merely additions to 
our numbers, but also useful additions to our stock of working geo¬ 
logists :— 
Number of Members for Ten preceding years . 
In 1846 . . . . 
. 84 Members 
In 
1852 . . . 
. . 132 
„ 1847 . . . . 
91 
9 9 
99 
1853 . . . 
. . 142 
„ 1848 . . . . 
97 
99 
11 
1854 . . . 
. . 146 
„ 1849 . . . . 
. 100 
99 
91 
1855 . . , 
. . 156 
„ 1850 . . . . 
. 110 
19 
91 
1856 . . . 
. . 165 
„ 1851 . . . . 
. 123 
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