total deficit in the year of ^S-il 105. 'id. ; this deducted from 

 the balance of the previous year would have left a balance of 

 only £99 12s. 7rf., to which must be added £231 3s. part of 

 the proceeds of the sale of the Farm not yet invested, to ac- 

 count for that which appears, viz. £330 ] 5s. Id. : but your 

 Committee point out to your notice, that there is included in 

 the expenditure the large amount of £1688 Os. 3r/., which was 

 incurred for the payment, in part, of a new Monkey House, 

 and which may fairly be regarded in the light of a permanent 

 and beneficial investment. 



Your Committee have to Report that under the head of 

 " Salaries and Wages" and " Garden Expenses," there ap- 

 pears a diminution as compared with the similar items of the 

 preceding year, the result, however, of the arrangements of 

 the pi'evious year, to the extent of £477 7s. \d. ; of this sum 

 £253 lOs. 4(i. was effected by a reduction of the Scientific 

 Department at the Museum ; and under the head of " Works, 

 &c." the Expenditure has been less by £543 16s. Wd. than 

 that of the year 1838. 



ASSETS. 



There has been little alteration in the Assets of the Society 

 during the'past year: it will be observed, however, that the item 

 of " Investment in Land at Kingston Hill" (formerly used as 

 a Farm) no longer appears under this head ; and that £800, 

 a part of £1031 3s. the purchase money arising from the sale 

 of this property, was added to the Funded Capital, making it 

 amount to £12,091 12s. Id., exclusive of £200 Exchequer 

 Bills. 



LIABILITIES. 



A comparison of the Liabilities of the Society at the close 

 of the years 1838 and 1839, exhibits a decrease in favour of 

 the latter year, to the amount of £379 8s. Sd. ; the total sum 

 on the 31st of December 1839, being £1699 7s. Sd. 



Your Committee congratulate the Society upon the suc- 

 cessful result of the application made by the Council to the 

 Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for ^ 



