Council, at an early opportunity, to suggest to the General 

 Meeting fitting persons to fill the vacancies now existing in 

 this list. ' 



The Honorary Members remain, as at the last Anniversary, 

 10 in number. 



The present number of Corresponding Members is 95, — 

 extensively distributed in various parts of tiie world, includ- 

 ing most of the remote dependencies of the British crown. 



Finance. 



By the Report of tlie Auditors of the Accounts for 1833, 

 it will be seen that the Receipts in that year amounted to 

 .£14,843 OS. 3d. In this amount there is, as compared with 

 the Receipts of 1832, a deficiency of £650 Is. (yd. Under 

 the head of Admissions to the Gardens the receipts have 

 been diminished to the extent of £1047 7*- j but under that 

 of Annual Contributions they have exceeded those of the 

 previous year by £362 I2s. The income from Admission 

 to the Gardens in 1833 was £7954 9^. : the payments 

 made to the Society by its Members amounted to £5645 5^. 



In the current j'ear, up to the present time, there is, as 

 compared with the corresponding period of 1833, a consider- 

 able increase in the Receipts, as well from the Gardens, as 

 on the General Establishment account. But this increase, 

 although affording hopes of an increase on the gi*oss Receipts 

 of the present year, by no means implies the certainty of 

 such an improvement. The receipts at the Gardens vary 

 with circumstances ; and it is probable that they have been 

 hitherto increased by the mildness of the season, Avhich has 

 allowed of an influx of visiters to that establishment greater 

 than has usually been attracted to it during the ranter 

 months. The increased amount of the receipts from the 

 Members is also, perhaps, attributable in some measure to 

 'the same cause, the collector having been enabled to make 

 his calls at an earlier period, and with more activity than in 

 ordinary seasons. As regards the income from Members, it 

 is evident that limited as it necessarily is in amount by the 



