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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 



EXPENDITUKE. 



Interest on loan notes, &c 



Kents, taxes, &c.. Regent-street and Chiswick. 

 Repairs, furnitui'e, &c.. Regent-street 

 Housekeeping expenses ditto .... 

 Salaries and wages, collector's poundage, &c. 



Cost of Quarterly Journal 



Cost of Transactions and Fruit Catalogues . 



Library charges 



Printing, stationery, &c 



Foreign missions and imports 



Expenses of meetings, postage, carriage, &c. 



Garden labour 



Implements, mats, seeds, &c 



Tan, dung, &c 



Coals and coke for Garden 



Miscellaneous expenses at Garden 



Garden repairs 



Distribution expenses 



Exhibition expenses 



New works at Garden 



Law expenses, 1850 and 1851 



American Exhibition expenses, 1851 . 



Cost of medals awarded 



Total . . . 



Here the Council find a reduction of charge to the extent of 

 184^. 10s. lOd., although in the previous year there was no ex- 

 pense incurred on account of the American Exhibition, or for 

 law-charges, and little for repairs of the house in Regent-street, 

 which have this year been increased to the extent of 62/. 12.v, lOcL 

 by repainting the Meeting Room, and the purchase of gas stoves 

 for heating it; from the latter some future saving in fuel is ex- 

 pected, as well as a degree of cleanliness that has long been 

 rendered impossible, on account of the incurable smokiness of the 

 chimneys. The apparent augmentation of the charge for Garden 

 Labour has been already explained ; and the other items in 

 which an inconsiderable increase is observable are in their 

 nature of a fluctuating character. Upon the whole it will be 

 found that the result of the year's operations is, that the Society's 

 Debt is reduced by the sum of 859/. 0*. Id., as under : — 



