MAY 1, 1849. 



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This comparison shows a total diminution of expense to the 

 extent of 183/. 7*. Id., notwithstanding that the account includes 

 one week's labour at tlie Garden more than in the last year, and 

 that it has been necessary to incur the cost of 126/. 15*. 2d. in 

 replacing the boilers of the great conservatory, the necessity of 

 which was announced in tlie Report made to the last Annual 

 Meeting. The Council would also observe that the reduction 

 in the expense of the establishment in Eegent-street has not 

 amounted to so much as was anticipated, in consequence of the 

 long employment of the Accountant in remodelling and renew- 

 ing the books of the Society ; and that a debt of 18/. 11*. 9d. for 

 ]\Iedals, not discovered at the period of the last general Audit, 

 and now discharged, is placed among the annual expenditure. 

 Some unusual expenses have also been incurred in Eegent-street 

 in consequence of passing the new By-laws, and specially sum- 

 moning by post extra Meetings on that account, and in the 

 purchase of a caravan (38/.) for the purpose of conveying plants 

 from the Garden to the Meetings. 



The experience of a second year has justified the expectations 

 entertained by the Council of the advantages attendant upon the 

 employment of a professional accountant, and they desire to 

 express their entire satisfaction at the manner in which the duty 



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