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on of the business of the Society. Now, happily, the debt 

 no longer exists, the sum necessary for its liquidation 

 having been transferred from the Subscription Fund to 

 the ordinary account ; and such has been the increase in 

 this year's receipts, arising from the admission fees and 

 subscriptions of 34 new members and 20 subscribers, that 

 although the sum of £80 has been devoted to alterations 

 of cases, stands for specimens, &c., rendered necessary 

 by the re-classification and re-arrangement of the zoolo- 

 gical department of the Museum, there is still a small 

 balance in the hands of the Treasurer. 



During the session two courses of lectures have 

 been delivered ; the one of six lectures by B. R. Haydon, 

 Esq., " On Painting," being a continuation of the course 

 delivered during the previous session ; the other also a 

 course of six lectures, " On the early English Opera,'* 

 with illustrations, by Edward Taylor, Esq., Gresham 

 Professor of Music. Both these courses were very po- 

 pular and well attended. On referring to the Treasurer's 

 account as it may probably be noticed that the nominal 

 receipts for the admission of strangers to these lectures 

 bears but a small ratio to the great outlay, it may be 

 proper to explain that this is only apparent, and that the 

 actual receipt from these lectures has been very large, as 

 they were the means of inducing many persons to become 

 Members who had not heretofore been connected with 

 the Society. 



