Report of the Council for 1906-1907

Abstract

Following the usual custom the Council beg to submit to the members an account of the work of the Society for the past Session from October, 1906, to September, 1907, the forty-ninth year of the Society's existence. Membership.—The membership has fluctuated in the usual manner, and though we are not in a position to chronicle any great advance, yet it is satisfactory to know that the membership has not decreased. It is of great interest to note that an increasing number of students have been taking advantage of the Associate membership of the Society, and it is also still more worthy of note that quite a number of these Associates of former years have recently joined the Society as full ordinary members. In last year's Report the Council drew attention to the great desirability of carefully nursing this class of members, and they think that it is already beginning to show some signs of bearing fruit. The study of geology in Glasgow seems at the present moment to be in a better position than it has ever been, and the Council feel that though we are standing at the present moment with nearly fifty years of work behind us—work of the very highest order, as our Transactions show—and though nearly all the men who did this work have now passed from us, yet our present position is such as to inspire us with every confidence that the next fifty years ought to be able to show a record quite worthy This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract