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has consented to give Six Lectures on Horticulture to the Fellows 

 of the Society on the following Tuesdays : — viz., May 15 and 22 ; 

 June 12 and 26; and July Sand 17; and in order to enable 

 tho-^e who may wish it, to exhibit on those days flowers or fruit 

 which cannot be received at the Garden Meetings, the Council 

 have availed themselves of the power given them by the by-laws 

 to constitute such Lectures Ordinary General Meetings, 



Finance Committee. 



The Finance Committee, referring to their last Annual Report, 

 have since ascertained that to many of the arrears remaining on 

 the books the Society has no legal claim, and that in some other 

 cases it is not expedient to incur the cost of enforcing claims 

 which might probably have been collected in former years. It 

 has been found necessary to remove from the books of account 

 old subscriptions amounting to 319/. 18*. 6d.; to suspend sub- 

 scriptions due to the amount of 265Z. 4^. ; and others will doubt- 

 less be found beyond the reacli of recovery. Tiiese, however, 

 are not regarded as available assets in the statement of the pro- 

 perty of the Society given in another part of this Report. The 

 arrears actually received during the year amount to 213/. 1*. 



The enactment of the new by-laws will, it is expected, facilitate 

 the operations of the Committee, and enable them by degrees to 

 extinguish the old arrears, and to make such arrangements as 

 will lessen the probability of a fresh accumulation, by a more 

 regular and punctual collection of subscriptions, in the accom- 

 plishment of which object they solicit the kind co-operation of 

 all tlie members. 



The Committee have to report that the amount of arrears of 

 subscriptions, of all sorts, due on the 1st of May, 1848, is now 

 618/. 10*., a much smaller sum than has appeared under this 

 head for many previous years. 



A comparison of the income of the Society for the last two 

 years gives the following results : — 



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