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 GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEB. 19, 1869.

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1868. The Council of the Geological Society, in presenting their Report for the year 1868, have again to congratulate the Fellows on the prosperity of the Society, although the increase in the number of Fellows has not been so great as in some previous years.

The number of new Fellows elected was 46, of whom 36 paid their fees before the end of the year, making with 10 previously elected who paid their fees in 1868 an effective increase of 46 Fellows. Against this must be placed the loss of 18 by death, and of 5 by resignation, giving a net increase of 23 ordinary Fellows. The number of Contributing Fellows is now 487.

The death of 1 Foreign Member and of 4 Foreign Correspondents was announced in 1868. The latter have been replaced by 1 Foreign Correspondent elected during the year, and 3 elected since its close.

The total number of Fellows and Foreign Members and Correspondents of the Society at the end of 1867 was 1185 ; and at the end of 1868, 1204.

The Council have much gratification in reporting that the income of the year 1868 has exceeded the expenditure by £11 7s. 8d., the total Receipts being £2037 16s. 4d., and the total Expenditure £2026 8s. 8d. This result is especially a subject of congratulation, inasmuch as the greater part of the cost of a supplementary Number of the Journal for 1867, and the Law Expenses incurred by the Council in claiming exemption from parish rates, amounting in all to nearly £200, are included in the expenditure of 1868.

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

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