176 BEPOKT OF THE COtJNClT,, 



Garden. 



As has been already stated, the Council have not felt them- 

 selves justified in undertaking any new works in the Society's 

 Garden. P2ven the erection of a reading-room, which would 

 have been highly desirable, has been deferred. 



With regard to the general condition of the Garden, the 

 Council have a satisfactory Report from the Garden Committee, 

 as will be seen l)y reference to Appendix B. 



Some surprise having been expressed at the last Anniversary at 

 the small amount of money which is received at the Garden for 

 the sale of fruit, the Council made some suggestions to the 

 Garden Committee upon the subject, and requested them to 

 report thereupon. The Report made by the Committee Mill be 

 found in the Appendix C. 



APPENDIX A. 



Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the Auditors. 



The Auditors appointed at the last Auuiversary beg to lay before the 

 Society the annexed statement of the Receipts, Payments, and LiabiHties of 

 the past year. 



The Council having dismissed, immediately after the second quarterly 

 audit, the then Accountant-Clerk, the Auditors recommended that in future 

 the Accounts should be confided to some Professional Gentleman instead of 

 a Clerk. The Council immediately acquiesced in the proposal, and appointed 

 Mr. Duncan of Tokenhouse Yard, by whom the accompanying balance sheet 

 has been prepared, and from whom the Auditors have received every pos- 

 sible assistance in examining the numerous details of which the Society's 

 Accounts necessarily consist. 



The Auditors find that the Society has not entirely escaped the disasters 

 of the preceding year, in addition to which they have to report, that owing 

 to the unfavourable state of the weather, the profits on account of the Ex- 

 hibitions at the Garden have proved to be diminished to the extent of 

 £748 15s. Sd. 



Nevertheless, in consequence of the economy practised by the Council in 

 cutting down all expenses which were not indispensable to the maintenance 

 of eflficiency in the management, the debt of the Society proves to have been 

 reduced upon the whole by the sum of £669 17s. \d. 



The Account shows a diminution in the amount received for Admission 

 Fees, Compositions, Transactions sold, charges to Fellows for packing plants 

 and for Garden Exhibitions ; and an inci'ease of the revenue arising from 

 Annual Subscriptions, the sale of the Society's Journal, Rent of Apartments 

 in Regent Street, Garden Produce, and miscellaneous receipts. 



On the other hand the Expenditure, although increased to the extent of 

 £141 1 8s. Cd. by the publication of a new Part of the Transactions, and 

 slightly under a few other heads, has been diminished as respects tlie follow- 

 ing items, viz.. Repairs of House in Regent Street, Housekeeping expenses in 

 Regent Street, Salaries, Printing and Stationery, Foreign Missions, Miscel- 

 laneous expenses in Regent Street, Garden Implements, Mould, Manure, &c., 

 Labour, Garden Repairs, and extraordinai-y Law expenses, the diminution 

 amounting in the whole to Z'-^l 4s. 2d. 



In this manner the diminished income has been counterbalanced, and the 

 reduction in debt to the amount above alluded to of £669 17s. \d.. has been 



