of their own body, to inquire into the Receipts and Expen- 

 diture of the Society, with a view to adopt measures for the 

 increase of the former and to diminish the latter ; and it is 

 their intention to enter into a most rigid examination of the 

 expenditure, with a full determination to reduce it to the 

 lowest possible scale consistent with the efficient carrying 

 on the objects of the Society. 



The Council, before closing this part of their Report, 

 feel it to be their duty to refer to the valuable assistance 

 they have received from the Committee of Finance for the 

 past year ; to whom the thanks of the Society are justly 

 due, for the care and attention with which they have dis- 

 charged the unobtrusive but most important duties of their 

 office. They also desire to record their sense of obligation, 

 in common with their fellow Members, to the Auditors, for 

 the trouble they have taken in the examination and inves- 

 tigation of the accounts of the Society during the past year. 



Library. 

 In the Report of last year the Council intimated their 

 intention of devoting to the purchase of scientific works, and 

 the increase of the Library generally, such sums as might 

 conveniently be spared from the Annual Receipts. In ac- 

 cordance with this determination the sum of £100 was 

 voted in the early part of the past year for the above pur- 

 poses; and this Fund has been increased by a most liberal 

 donation of twenty-five guineas from Charles Morris, Junr., 

 Esq. The Council at the same time ordered a book to be 

 placed in the Meeting-room, in which Members might re- 

 commend such works as might be deemed expedient for 

 purchase. A part only of the Library Fund has as yet 

 been expended ; and this has been principally laid out 

 upon such works, (recommended either by individual 

 Members or the Museum Committee, and subsequently 

 confirmed by the Council) as were likely to prove of essen- 

 tial use in the cataloguing and arrangement of the Society's 

 Collection. Among the works so purchased may be men- 

 tioned, 



