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BALANCE SHEET FOR 1888. 
RECEIPTS. EXPENSES. 
ao Ba Gy £ 8. 4. 
Subscriptions ...... 1117 6 _, Due last year to Trea- 
Portion of Mrs. Rum- surer ... .. ...014 8} 
sey’s donation drawn Printing and. Postage 8 18 84 
fromthe Bank ...10 O 0} Museum Expenses... 110 0 
Interest on ditto 1 2 8} Hire of Room... ...015 0 
Conversazione... ...717 54 
SUMGTION ... 2. »<, O11 2 
Collector’s Commis- 
sion SSeS Ferd ob eT 
Caretaker (Museum) 0 12 6 
1610 74 
Pa iad es ae GO 9 Ga 
_ —— —__ _— 
£23 0 2 £23 0 2 
Also balance remaining from Mrs. Rumsey’s donation of £10. 
The President then read the following : 
ANNUAL ADDRESS. 
Although there have been no great or startling discoveries since 
I last addressed you, never perhaps have scientific workers been 
more numerous and indefatigable. Indeed, in reviewing the 
advance of science during the past year, we can find hardly any 
branch in which considerable strides of progress have not been 
made. Hlectricity maintains the first rank as one of the most 
practical benefactors of mankind, and from its varied applications 
is invaluable in the side light it throws on many other scientific 
inventions, such as the Phonograph, the Graphophone, the new 
telegraphy from trains in motion, electric fishing, and the produc- 
tion of the valuable metal, aluminium. Sir Frederick Bramwell, 
in his interesting address last Autumn at the British Association, 
reminded his hearers that the object of that association was 
- primarily the advancement of science in its practical application 
to the benefit of mankind, and he referred to those physical bless- 
ings which science, at the hands of its votaries, has so beneficially 
showered upon us, 
