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Society has no legal claim, or against whom it does not appear 

 advisable to proceed, or who have prayed to be excused on ac- 

 count of poverty, or who have died leaving half a year's sub- 

 scription undischarged, or who, not having completed their elec- 

 tion, are not Fellows of the Society, or whose nominal half-year's 

 subscription upon election should have been cancelled, the Com- 

 mittee has recommended 209 cases to be abandoned, the nominal 

 amount of whose debts is 1493/. 12*. 



Of the second class, consisting of persons against whom the 

 Society has apparently a claim, but from whom there has ap- 

 peared to be no means of procuring payment, or who have been 

 bankrupts, or are known to be in insolvent circumstances, or 

 who cannot be found, 62 cases have been examined, amounting 

 to 2491/. 17*. All these cases have been placed in a separate 

 list, in order that the debts (hie by them may not appear among 

 the available resources of the Society. The Committee have 

 thus avoided doing any act that would release the persons in this 

 position from any legal liability they may be under to the So- 

 ciety, and their names can be replaced upon the payment of 

 their arrears. In fact, since their cases were decided upon, two 

 have done so and been reinstated. 



A third class has been found to consist of Fellows who were 

 clearly indebted to the Society, and about whose liability no 

 legal doubt existed. Pressing letters have been addressed to 

 them, in some cases through the solicitors, the result of which 

 has already been the recovery of arrears to the amount of 

 710/. 13*. 6^. 



There still remains a small number of cases of which the Com- 

 mittee has not been able to dispose, and which they leave for 

 further consideration." 



Transactions. 



The third part of the 3rd Volume of the New Series of the 

 Transactions, containing a complete Index to the whole 10 vo- 

 lumes, has been issued within the year, and brings to a close 

 that part of the Society's publications. The Journal has conti- 

 nued to appear quarterly with perfect regularity. 



Exhibitions. 



The Exhibitions at the Garden have maintained their accus- 

 tomed reputation, with the exception of Fruit, in the quality of 

 which tiiere has been so marked a decline, that the especial 

 attention of the Exhibition Committee was directed to the sub- 



