REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 



CLOSE OF THE EIGHTEENTH SESSION. 



The circumstances requiring notice in the present 

 Report of the Council, are both numerous and impor- 

 tant; since many of them, however, have become 

 known to the Members as they occurred, a brief men- 

 tion only seems now to be called for. 



The finances of the Society present this year no 

 new feature ; when strict economy is observed in every 

 branch of expense, and especially when all purchases 

 for the Museum are steadily declined, the annual ex- 

 penditure of the Society agrees very nearly with its 

 average income ; when greater liberality than usual is 

 practised in the engaging of Lecturers, or when those 

 specially interested in the Museum give way to the 

 wish, so natural, to increase its stores from the ordinary 

 funds, a deficiency arises, and the debt of the Society, 

 already a source of uneasiness to some of its friends, 

 is augmented. 



This has been the case, in some degree, during 



