REPORT, 



PRESENTED TO TUE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 



February 6th, 1827. 



In the review of the Society's proceedings during the past 

 year, which it is the duty of the Council to lay before the 

 Annual Meeting, they are led by the documents which they 

 now produce, to remark, in the first place, upon the number 

 and value of the acquisitions which the Society has made, 

 compared with the expenditure of its funds. 



It will be remembered that, in the last report of the Trea- 

 surer, there remained, on tiie general summary of the accounts, 

 a balance of Eighty-one Pounds against the Society ; 

 and though, to meet this balance struck on the thirty-first 

 of December, the subscriptions due in the following January 

 were available, and the debt might so far be considered as 

 little more than nominal, it yet appeared to the Council indis- 

 pensably necessary to guard against any further anticipation 

 of the Society's resources. 



