144 Proceedings. 



As regards the credit side of the account, full details of 

 the items constituting the ordinary expenditure were given 

 in the reports of the two preceding years, and it is necessary 

 to allude here only to those which indicate any important 

 change. 



In Charges 2ipoii Property is a small item for the cost 

 of affixing tablets of names to the portraits of distinguished 

 men which hang upon our walls, and of the marble busts in 

 the possession of the Society. 



House Expenditure. — During the Meeting of the British 

 Association in Manchester last autumn, the Society's rooms 

 were thrown open to the members of the Association, and 

 the Society was honoured by the presence of many of its 

 foreign honorary members. In this connection your 

 Council has gratefully to acknowledge the liberality of the 

 Local Committee of the British Association in making a 

 prospective grant to the Society of the moiety of any 

 surplus funds subscribed to meet the expenses of the 

 Manchester meeting, and also the present of the handsome 

 Library desk which stands in the Natural History Room, 

 " in recognition of services rendered by the Society." 



In Administrative Charges y the salary of the Curator 

 and Assistant Secretary terminated at the quarter ending 

 30th June, 1887, after which date your Council decided to 

 abolish the office. In the last report it was stated that the 

 Society's respected housekeeper and collector, Mr. William 

 Roscoe, had felt obliged, through failing health, to tender 

 his resignation, but at the request of the officers, he continued 

 to discharge the duties of his post until the conclusion of 

 the meeting of the British Association. Upon the occasion 

 of his leaving, the President, on behalf of the members,, 

 presented Mr. Roscoe with a purse containing £40, in 

 recognition of his faithful services, accompanied by an 

 expression of regard engrossed on vellum. In November 

 last, your Council appointed as clerk and housekeeper^ 



