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happily ceased, and we stand in a really strong position con- 

 sidering the numerous and heavy calls upon our comparatively 

 slender income. From the Balance-sheet hefore you it will be 

 seen that we leave off with some £13 in hand. Of this, how- 

 ever, £10 consists of donations specially given towards the Rain- 

 fall Returns for the ensuing year (for which also £12 more is 

 kindly promised). This reduces our actual balance to £3 as 

 against £22 last year. But upon looking down the expenditure 

 for the year 1891, it will be seen that several large items have 

 been paid which belong to 1890, the accounts for which had, I 

 believe, not been sent in in time. Amongst these is £24 for 

 printing Transactions, £7 share of Rainfall Returns grant, and 

 £9 for Soiree of 1890 ; so that in reality we began this year 

 with liabilities of at least £40 against a balance of £22. At the 

 present, however, our accounts are practically all paid up, and 

 our balance, though small, is our own. 



Again our prospects are good, for, besides the two generous 

 donations of Mr. Baldwin Latham and Mr. Compton Rickett 

 towards our Rainfall expenses, we have, as I said, £12 more 

 promised ; so that with care we should close the present year 

 with a net credit balance of £30. 



It will be seen from the Balance-sheet that a great saving 

 has last year been effected in our Soiree expenses, which 

 amounted last November to £31, as against £60 for 1890. The 

 modifications in our arrangements which led to this saving did 

 not meet with universal approval, but they have at least been 

 the means of relieving your Committee from the position of 

 having to report that the Club was in debt to the extent of some 

 £20. The further generous donation of £5 by Mr. McKean was 

 for the benefit of our Photographic Section. 



As regards our Special Fund, which, as you are aware, is 

 available for appliances, apparatus, books, &c., useful to our 

 Club, we have a balance of £22. Although we have a fairly 

 good library, I do not think we possess any practical works on 

 photography, except the current journals, which have been kindly 

 given by Mr. Gower. I therefore think, as we have so many 

 photographers amongst us, that a few books for their use might 

 with advantage be procured. 



Our Sub-Committees continue to work in their various sub- 

 jects, but I think some might do more, the cliief delinquent, I 

 fear, being my own Section, the Geological. The Reports of the 

 Sub-Committee Secretaries for the past year are as follows : — 



Report of the Botanical Sub-Committee, January, 1891. 



Since oiir last Report some valuable additions Lave been made to the 

 Club Herbarium, notably a series of specimens of Surrey EpUobia 

 (willow herbs), includincj several hybrids from the Rev. E. S. Marshall, 



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