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INCOME. 



The foregoing Abstract of the Income for the year 1 840, 

 when compared with that of the preceding year, will exhibit 

 a decrease in the whole of £699 10*. lOd., the falling off 

 of the Receipts under the important head of " Admissions to 

 the Gardens" amounting to £419 14*. Under the several 

 heads of "Admission Fees, Compositions, and Ivory Tickets," 

 there is also a decrease, amounting together to the sum of 

 £364'l7«. Under the head of " Annual Subscriptions," there 

 is for past, present, and future years, on the whole, an in- 

 crease of £129, there being a decrease, under this head, of 

 the trifling sum of £15 for the year 1840, as compared with 

 the year 1839; thus showing an admirable steadiness in this 

 important part of the Society's Income. Under the head of 

 " Garden Sales," the sum of £208 15*. 6d. appears to have 

 been received, being £15 6s. 6d. less than the sum received 

 under this head in the preceding year. Your Committee 

 express an earnest hope that this interesting and useful ob- 

 ject of the Society will be pi'osecuted by the Council with 

 unabated exertions. » 



ARREARS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS. 



Your Committee observe with unfeigned regret, that the 

 arrear of Subscriptions amount, for previous years, to the 

 sum of £249; and for the year 1840, to the sum of £688; 

 making together the sum of £937; being £21 more than 

 the arrears due, under these heads, in the j'ear 1839. Your 

 Committee refer the Society to the admirable suggestions of 

 the Council and Auditors of last year on this subject, and 

 point out, that had these arrears been paid up, as they most 

 unquestionably ought to have been, the Income of 1840 

 would have been larger than that of 1839 by above £200. 



EXPENDITURE. 



Your Committee have great pleasure in stating, that the 

 Expenditure for the past year has been kept considerably 



