for admissions £52 1 1*. : an amount extremely small, as com- 

 pared with some of the earlier years of the establishment, 

 when with fewer objects the exhibition was more attractive 

 than it has been of late in that crowded condition which gave 

 to it rather the confused air of a store than the appearance 

 of an arranged Museum. 



THE FARM 



remains nearly in the same condition as at the last Anni- 

 versary : the leasehold portion of it is underleased on pre- 

 cisely the same terms as to rent and other covenants as those 

 on which the Society holds it ; and of the freehold portion 

 the two inclosed fields have been recently let for the season. 

 The only current expense accruing under this head, is a 

 small weekly payment to a labourer for keeping some of the 

 fences in order ; the fences of the two fields being in the 

 care of the tenant. 



With a view to the sale of the land by auction, the Coun- 

 cil have thought it advisable to redeem the Land Tax 

 chargeable on it. But they have since been influenced by 

 local circumstances that have been reported to them to post- 

 pone, for the present, the submitting of the property to 

 public sale. 



It now only remains for the Council to direct the attention 

 of the Members more particularly to the annexed 



Report of the Auditors 



of the Accounts for 1835, and to express, in common with 

 the Society at large, their thanks for the diligence and accu- 

 racy with which those gentlemen have discharged the labo- 

 rious duties imposed upon them. 



That Report refers exclusively to the Accounts of the 

 past year : but as the Council conceive that it may be of in- 

 terest to many of the Members to have submitted to them at 



