FEBRUARY 10, 1863. 49 
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As at 3156 Dec., 1861. As at 31st Рес, iid 
1 | 
Payable in| Retro- Payable in| Retro- 
Advance. | spectively. | Advance. | spectively. 
Fellows paying 1 guinea. | | 10 | 7 3 
» guineas or A 16 9 
» » » 716 | 6 912 6 
» ” » . . * 915 215 1307 80 
Fellows who have compounded by | 
paying 20 guineas . .| 884 886 
40 * | 555 587 
| 
2520 256 8215 98 
6 
2776 3813 
2776 
Increase ... EI M 7] ias: 537 
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The above table shows the actual state of matters each year, at 
3156 December. Buton taking deaths and resignations into account, it 
appears that 633 new Fellows have joined the Society since 31st Decem- 
ber, 1861, and that there have been 55 deaths, and 41 resignations. 
It will be seen from the above table that the recommendation of 
the Council in last year's Report, that Fellows who paid retrospectively 
should change their retrospective payment into one in advance, has been 
Well responded to—the number of retrospective subscribers having 
been reduced from 256 to 98. Many of those who are still in this 
position have no doubt continued so from inadvertence, and it is 
hoped that in another year the number may be still further reduced. 
Through the consideration of the Fellows too, the transference of the 
period of payment from the Ist of May to the Ist of January has been 
all but unanimously carried into effect. 
As regards the expenditure, the unfinished state of the Garden, 
together with the exceptional nature of the year, added to the fact that 
the previous season was equally exceptional from its being the opening 
year of the reconstituted Society, and from its only extending over eight 
instead of twelve months, prevent the receipts and expenditure of the 
two years being contrasted with each other, and the Council must 
confine themselves to treating the expenditure of each by itself. : 
The expenses of the publications of the Society are large, owing to 
the considerable number of Fellows ; but the information contained in 
them is (the Couneil have every reason to believe) considered valuable 
by the Fellows at large. The Council, however, with the view of 
making it contribute to its own support, have resolved to allow adver- 
tisements to be received on horticultural and scientific subjects. — 
Mr. Weir, the Plant-Collector in South Brazil, has examine: 
and reported on a district not much known, and when last heard 
from, was on his жа 
o explore new ground in the interior. / Mr. 
Cooper, the Plant-Collector in South Africa, was sent out 8s an _ 
