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JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. 
During the past year the papers read before the Society have 
been unusually interesting, and some of them likely, from their 
practical bearing, to possess an interest for many who are not as 
yet Members of our Society. It is hoped by your Council that 
the increased circulation likely to be obtained by our publications, 
in consequence of the recent arrangement with the Editors of the 
Natural History Review, will attract the notice of some who may 
wish to join the Society; and that our labours, becoming better 
known, will be better appreciated than they have yet been by 
many whose interests are intimately connected with the progress of 
Geological Science. 
The first number of the Natural History Review, which contains 
the Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, has been already 
delivered to each Member of the Society not in arrear of subscriptions; 
and it is hoped that a similar number of this Review, containing 
papers read before your Society, will be placed each quarter in the 
hands of all our Members, who will thus receive the publications 
of the Society four times per annum, instead of, as hitherto, only 
once; and that too at an uncertain interval. 
Let each Member of the Society make his friends acquainted 
with the advantages to be obtained by joining us; and let us en¬ 
deavour to increase the number of our Subscribers to an extent 
which will place us in a position, which, in a financial point of view, 
will be suitable to the important objects the Geological Society of 
Dublin has kept steadily in view for the quarter of a century 
during which it has lived and thriven. 
Your Council also desire in this Report to acknowledge the libe¬ 
rality of the Board of Trinity College, by which they have been 
enabled to make some valuable additions to the list of their publi¬ 
cations. 
In the Appendix following the Report will be found the state¬ 
ment of our accounts for the past year, from which it appears that 
there was a balance of £28 135. 5d. to the credit of the Society on 
January 1, 1856. 
