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expenditure of the year will be found to have been £110 13s. 9d. 

 The Swimming Bath receipts have not this year equalled their 

 usual amount ; hut with this exception the receipts at the 

 gates, from new members, and from almost every other source 

 of income, are greater than in 1852. Thus the total income 

 exceeds the total expenditure of the year by £145 5s. 8d., which 

 has enabled the Society to pay off a balance of £89 2s. 7d., 

 due to their Bankers on the 1st January, 1853, and has left 

 a sum of £56 3s. Id., to the Society's credit on the 1st January, 

 1854. 



During the past year the Council have to lament the death of 

 Richard John Thompson, Esq., of Kirby Hall, one of the 

 Trustees of the Society, in whom the Society have lost a liberal 

 friend and patron ; Mr. Thompson kindly cancelling the debt 

 of £50 due to him from the Society. 



After this review, whether the Council point to the rare 

 acquisitions of the Society, in the Geological and Antiquarian 

 departments, or to the instruction and gratification afforded to 

 thousands during the Exhibition in August last, they trust they 

 may fairly derive from the past year the strongest assurance that 

 the peculiar objects of the Institution are becoming each year 

 more and more appreciated, and that an increasing sympathy in 

 those objects, thus awakened, may lead to the further prosperity 

 of the Society, and extend its sphere of usefulness. 



