responding Members. The Honorary and the Foreign 

 A [embers remain as at the last Anniversary. 



The number of Fellows elected into the Society since 

 April, 1835, is 289; and the number of which it has been 

 deprived by death is 59, and by resignation, 37. The 

 number of actual Fellows has been further reduced, at 

 the commencement of 1836, by the removal, in conformity 

 with the By-Law which then, for the first time, came into 

 operation, of no fewer than 127; being the whole of those 

 whose subscriptions due prior to 1835 remained at that time 

 unpaid: of these, however, 8, who have since paid the 

 amounts severally due by them, have been restored by the 

 Council. Notwithstanding these numerous removals, the 

 actual number of Fellows and Fellows Elect amounts, on 

 the present day, to 2878. The candidates for the Fellow- 

 ship now on the books are 70. 



On the subject of 



Finance, 



the Council would, in the first instance, direct the attention 

 of the Members to the Report of the Auditors of the Ac- 

 counts ; in which will be found an Abstract of the Receipts 

 and Expenditure of the Society during the year 1835, under 

 each of the general heads of the Ledger. From the remarks 

 subjoined by the Auditors to their general Finance State- 

 ment, it will be seen that the Income of the Society in 1835 

 fell short of that of 1834 by about £800, a diminution chiefly 

 owing, as they observe, to the diminished amount received 

 as Compositions from the Fellows in lieu of their Annual 

 Contributions: and that the Expenditure of 1835 exceeded 

 that of 1834 by about £350. On reference to the particular 

 items of the Accounts, it will appear that the increased ex- 

 penditure of the last year has been principally in the Gardens, 

 and chiefly under the head of Works and Buildings. These, 

 as they have included a considerable extent of fencing for 

 the newly acquired Pasturage Ground, a portion of the 

 recently erected Elephant House, and much general drain- 



