. available for the reduction i 



In forming this estimate they have fixed the 

 London expenditure at 500L a-year, and that of the Garden 

 at 1300L, sums within which the expenses will, if possible, be 

 confined. 



The year now reported on has been so entirely transitional, 

 that no considerable increase in the numbers of the Society could 

 have been anticipated. It is found, however, that while the total 

 number of Fellows of all classes at the last anniversary amounted 

 to 978, the number on our list on the present occasion is 985, 

 the number of elections havhig been 63, of resignations 30, and 

 of deaths 25. 



Small as this increase may be considered, the Council trust 

 that it may be taken to indicate a determination on the part of 

 the public to sustain this valuable association which, during more 

 than half a century, has been conferring signal benefits upon the 

 all-important art of cultivation ; and they confidently rely upon a 

 very considerable accession of strength as soon as the public shall 

 have had an opportunity of seeing the effect of the measures now 

 announced. For themselves they can only add, that it is their 

 most anxious desire to consider fully all suggestions, and to adopt 

 every measure within their means tending to infuse new activity 

 into the administration of its affairs, and to increase its utility 

 in every direction, with a view to maintain tlie Society in the 

 proud position it has so long occupied among the useful institu- 

 tions of Europe. 



