10 REPORT OF 



The Treasurer's Report will show that, so far as the 

 ANNUAL ACCOUNTS are concerned, the finances of the 

 Society are in a prosperous state ; and that the balance in its 

 favor for the past year amounts to somewhat more than a 

 hundred pounds. But the most material point in its affairs 

 to which the Council have to call the attention of the 

 Meeting, is the extraordinary expenditure which has 

 been incurred, on account of the New Museum and the 

 improvements connected with it : and for a satisfactory 

 explanation of that expenditure, they must refer to the 

 Report of the Building Committee. 



After stating that all the accounts have been made up to 

 the commencement of the year 1830, the Committee proceed 

 to report upon them in the following manner : 



" The Accounts now presented are arranged under six 

 heads. The first of these includes the total expense of the 

 main Building ; and the amount is 6868/. The sum 

 originally proposed to be laid out upon it was 5650/. ; but 

 the expenditure was increased by the following improve- 

 ments : the basement floor was extended under the whole 

 building ; the zoological museum was enlarged to such 

 dimensions as would allow a gallery to be hereafter erected ; 

 the side museums were faced with stone ; and, not to mention 

 other additions for convenience or ornament, it was deter- 

 mined to warm the whole fabric by hot air stoves, and to 



