xxiv Annual Report of the Con net/. 



At the credit of General Fund "^^9 i8 i 



,, ,, Wilde Endowment Fund ... 248 16 i 



„ ,, Joule Memorial Fund 72 11 4 



„ ,, Dalton Tomb Fund 35 4 2 



Balance 31st March, 1906 .^^426 to 



The Wilde Endowment Fund, which is kept as a separate 

 banking account shows a balance of ^248 i6s. id. in its 

 favour, as against ^233. i6s. 6d., at the beginning of the 

 financial year, the receipts from the invested funds being the 

 same as last year. 



No expenditure has been incurred in respect of the Joule 

 Memorial Fund and the Dalton Tomb Fund, the balances of 

 which remain at the amounts stated above. The Dalton Tomb 

 Fund stands as a separate account at the Manchester and 

 Salford Savings Bank. 



The Librarian reports that during the session 757 volumes 

 have been stamped, catalogued and pressmarked, 690 of these 

 being serials, and 67 separate works. There have been written 

 466 catalogue cards, 365 for serials, and loi for separate works. 

 The total number of volumes catalogued to date is 29,122 for 

 which 10,195 cards have been written. 



Satisfactory use is made of the library for reference purposes, 

 but the number of volumes consulted is not recorded. During 

 the session, 160 volumes have been borrowed from the library, 

 as compared with 134 in the previous session. 



Some attention has continued to be paid to the completion 

 of sets, 7 volumes or parts having been obtained, which partly 

 complete two sets. These were presented by the societies 

 publishing them. 



A larger amount of binding has been done this session, 498 

 volumes having been bound in 418. 



