RECEIPTS. 



£ 8. d. 

 Balance in hand at last 



Audit 35 7 3 



Subscriptions received from 

 July 1, 1867, to June 

 30th, 1868 162 10 



116 



TREASURER'S REPORT. 

 June 30th, 1868. 



PAYMENTS. 



£197 17 3 



£ B. d. 



Printing and Stationery ... 26 14 10 



Postages 9 



Advertisements 19 6 



Attendants 2 12 6 



Property purchased 19 5 1 



Petty Expenses 11 8 



Expenses of Soire'e 39 7 6 



Journal, Nos I. and II. — 



nett cost 26 6 5 



Balance at Banker's 62 9 



£197 17 3 



ROBERT HARDWICKE, Treasurer. 



We, the undersigned, having examined the above Statement of Income and 

 Expenditure, and the Vouchers referring thereto, hereby certify that the said 

 Account is correct. 



W.T.SUFFOLK, } ^.^itors. 



THOS. C. WHITE, > 



The adoption of the report was moved by Mr, Watkins, seconded by Mr. 

 John Hopkinson, and carried unanimously. 



The alterations in Rule 2, proposed by the committee, and of which due 

 notice had been given (see Page 112), were put, and carried unanimously. 



Mr. Cooke's motion, that the words "and two of the Vice-Presidents" be 

 added to Rule 2, was also put and carried. 



The next proposed alteration was to strike out from rule 7 the words, " but any 

 member proposed for election after the 31st of March in each year shall be 

 exempt from subscription until the foUovring July in the same year." 



Some discussion on this proposition ensued, and eventually Mr. M. C. Cooke 

 moved to substitute for the words pi'oposed to be left out, the words " That any 

 member elected in May or in June shall be exempt from subscription until the 

 following July of the same year." This motion having been seconded was put 

 and carried. 



The next proposition for consideration was to omit " that the words on an- 

 other paper" from rule 9. 



This alteration was also put and carried. 



Mr. Collins and Mr. Suffolk having been appointed scrutineers, the ballot for 

 officers for the ensuing year took place, and subsequently the gentlemen nomi- 

 nated by the committee (see Page 112) were declared duly elected. 



The President announced that the following objects were contributed for ex- 

 hibition : — A specimen of galls on the Oak, by Mr. Martinelli ; Iridescent 

 colours on the wing of a Fly, by Mr. Marks; and an apparatus for Polarisa- 

 tion by reflection, by Mr. Bestall. 



Mr. Cooke, the secretary for foreign correspondence, announced that he had 

 received a circular from the American Microscopical Society of New York, ex- 

 pressing the Society's wish to be placed in communication with other societies. 

 He also stated that he had received communications together with lists of 



