14 REPORT OF 



from urgent necessity ; — charges for printing and stationery, 

 for purchasing and binding books, for garden labour, fuel, 

 carriage of goods, postage and other incidental expenses, 

 may be stated at 180/. Together, then, the whole regular 

 expenditure is 387/. which, deducted from an income of 

 509/. leaves a surplus of 122/. ; and when from this is taken 

 the interest of the debt, which at ^ per cent is 52/., the real 

 surplus of income is 70/. ; a surplus which will admit of 

 paying off one creditor yearly, and leave 20/. for the pur- 

 chase of specimens or apparatus. 



which should hereafter be kept steadily in view ; and if 

 they propose any departure from it for the present year, it 

 is only in order to meet an immediate and pressing necessity. 

 The Museum and Library have been fitted up with cases, 

 some for temporary and others for permanent use, but alto- 

 gether barely sufficient to contain the present collection : 

 more of this expensive furniture already begins to be wanted, 

 and the Council cannot advise supplying this want by a 

 system of shifts and expedients, which in the end entail more 

 expense with less of ornament or use. They propose there- 

 fore that the surplus of the present year's income, together 

 with the admission fees of new members, shall be appropriated 

 to the purpose of providing cases for the Library and Museum. 

 The sum indeed which this appropriation will furnish is very 

 inadequate to the object in view, but it will effect something ; 

 and the Council cannot but cherish a hope that the defici- 

 ency will yet be supplied by some further contributions to 

 this definite end, from those to whom it would be gratifying 



