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 GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEB. 17, 1871.

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1870.

The Council of the Geological Society, in presenting their Report for the year 1870, have again to congratulate the Fellows on the increasing prosperity of the Society.

The number of new Fellows elected was 58, of whom, however, only 42 paid their fees before the end of the year, making, with 9 previously elected Fellows who paid their fees in 1870, a total effective increase of 51 Fellows. Against this must be placed the loss of 21 Fellows by death, of 5 by resignation, and of 3 removed from the list on account of non-payment of contributions, making a total of 29, and thus giving a net increase of 22 ordinary Fellows. The number of Contributing Fellows is now 533.

The election of 1 Foreign Member and of 2 Foreign Correspondents took place in 1870, and the death of 1 Foreign Member was announced.

The total number of Fellows and Foreign Members and Correspondents at the end of 1869 was 1222; and at the end of 1870, 1245.

The Council have much gratification in reporting that, notwithstanding a very heavy expenditure in illustrations for the Quarterly Journal of the Society, the Income of the year 1870 exceeded the Expenditure by £156 0s. 2d. ; the total Receipts being £2050, and the total Expenditure £1867 15s. 8d. Under these circumstances the Council felt justified in investing a further sum of £200 in the purchase of £211 7s. 3d. of 3 per cent. Consols.

The Council have to announce the completion of Vol. XXVI. of the Quarterly Journal, and the commencement of the publication of Vol. XXVII.

They have also to announce that to provide for the increasing circulation of the Quarterly Journal, and in order to be able to present copies to the Foreign Correspondents, they have decided in future to print 1500 copies of it, and also to give the authors of papers published in the Journal 25 separate copies properly made up, in lieu of the 15 copies which have hitherto been prepared by cutting up twice that number of sheets of the Journal.

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