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stating the relative amounts for each, or the proportion due to 

 publications and library. An attempt to assess a fair share to 

 each has been made. 



The first Treasurer, Dr. Goodenough, held that position during 

 ten years ; the first year showed nothing then for annual pay- 

 ments, but only for entrance fees, £1 11.?. 6d., the annual guinea 

 subscription and compositions of ten guineas falling in tlie next 

 year. In 1S02, the year of the Cliarter, the fees were raised to 

 two guineas, and the composition to tweuty guineas respectively, 

 and in 1829 the sums due from new members were augmented 

 to their present amount with the exception of the composition 

 fee, then £30, which was in 1878 brought up to fifteen years' 

 purcliase, £45. 



The Society began with a modest payment of six shillings 

 per meeting at the Marlborough Coffee House, and the annual 

 outlay of £20 a year to the President, for tb.e use of two rooms 

 in his house ; but on his removal to Norwich in 1802, the head- 

 quarters were shifted to Panton Street for three years, and in 1805 

 the sum of £300 was spent in acquiring the lease of 9 Gerrard 

 Street, Soho, and a further sum of £300 18s. for fitting up the 

 same ; the rent of these premises came to £102 5s. Ten years later 

 another sum of £300 liad to be met for the renewal of the lease : 

 but in 1820, when the death of Sir Joseph Banks made his house 

 in Soho Square vacant, tlie Society moved thither, and there 

 remaiued until the Government in 1857 assigned apartments in 

 the old Burlington House to the Linnean Society, with a most 

 welcome exemption from rent, rates, and taxes; the large share 

 hitherto consumed of the annual income by these outgoings had 

 acted prejudicially to its publishing work, by diminishing the 

 amount available. The last removal was effected in the autumn of 

 1873, when tlie property of the Society was transferred to the 

 present apartments, under the personal superintendence of the 

 President, Mr. Beutham, who not only schemed the proper 

 arrangement of books in the library, but actually placed a large 

 ntiniber of them on the new shelves with his own hands. Towards 

 the needful cost he contributed a sum of £50, which was further 

 eked out by the sale of the old shelving (£155 5s.) and dupli- 

 cate volumes (£64 10s.). 



Salaries naiurally account for a considerable part of the 

 expenditure, and the Society can congratulate itself on having 

 always had at its disposal the services of a hard-working and 

 most efficient and distinguished staff. Beginning with the ill- 

 fated I'rancis Borone, at a salary of £5 per annum, the roll of 

 the Society can boast of such names as Eobert Brown, David 

 Don, Eichard Kippist, and James Murie. 



At the outset a museum was started, and for many years the 

 cost of providing cabinefs and due supervision taxed the funds 

 of the Society. With the formation and growing accessibility of 



