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REPORT OF THE 



ley's recently published work on " The Vegetable Kingdom," 

 the Society possesses representatives of no less than 200. The 

 Sub-Curator has been enabled by his extensive correspondence 

 to effect many valuable exchanges with the Curators of the 

 Royal Gardens at Kew, the Royal Botanical Society's Gardens 

 in the Regent's Park, and the Botanical Garden at Hull, as well 

 as with several private individuals. 



The Council regret to have again to report the want of success 

 which attended the Horticultural Exhibition, held in the 

 Society's Gardens in June last, arising from no want of zeal 

 or efficient management on the part of the Committee, but from 

 an unfortunate concurrence of circumstances over which they 

 had no controul. 



For a statement of the Society's finances, the Council refer 

 the Meeting to the balance-sheet which accompanies this report. 

 They have much pleasure in congratulating the Society upon 

 the increasing interest taken by the public in the Museum 

 and Gardens, as evinced by the sum received at the gate for 

 the admission of strangers, amounting during the year to £l74. 

 In addition to this the public have, as customary, been admitted 

 gratuitously on Whit- Monday and Tuesday. Another important 

 item in the receipts is the money received at the Swimming 

 Bath. The unusual heat of the summer may in part account 

 for the large increase in this branch of the Society's income, 

 which, after deducting all expenses incident thereto, leaves a 

 balance in favour of the Society of £112. 10s. lOd. 



The Council have been called upon to repay to the Executors 

 of the late William Gray, Esq., the sum of £1000. lent to the 

 Society some years since by that gentleman ; and a further sum 

 of £379. has been required for the purchase of Mr. Hargrove's 

 Collection of Antiquities, as awarded by reference to competent 

 arbitrators. In the present state of its finances, the regular 

 income of the Society is fully adequate to defray all the ordinary 

 expenses which it can be called upon to bear, — but it must be 

 recollected that little can be done in the furtherance of those 

 scientific objects for which the Society was originally established, 

 without the revival of that general interest which the origin of 



