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under the amount of the Income, which has afforded the 

 Council an opportunity of adding £1068 7-*- 5rf. sterling to 

 the Investment Fund, leaving a balance in the Banker's 

 hands of £155 10s. Id. ; being, however, less by £l75 5s. 6d. 

 than the balance on the 31st of December, 1839. 



In one item of the Expenditure, viz. Salaries and Wages, 

 there appears a saving, as compared with the previous year, 

 amounting to £104 lOs. 3d., in addition to the considerable 

 reduction of £477 7*' Id' which was made under this head 

 in the year 1839. 



Under the head of " Works, Materials, and Repairs," there 

 has been, however, the considerable increase of £584 2*. 8d. ; 

 but there have been no buildings undertaken during the past 

 year. There has been also an increase in the sum paid for 

 Provisions in 1840, amounting to £100 13s. lOrf. 



The surplus of Income over Expenditure would have been 

 still greater than has been stated, but that the large sum of 

 £835 13s. lid. has been expended during the year for that 

 very desirable and legitimate object, the Purchase and Car- 

 riage of Animajs. 



Your Committee cannot leave this part of their Report 

 without expressing to the Society at large the very great 

 satisfaction with which, throughout their examination of the 

 Society's Accounts, they recognize the evident determination 

 continued to be manifested by the Council to reduce the 

 expenditure of the Society as much as possible, consistently 

 with the carrjdng out the great object for which the Society 

 was originally formed, and in maintaining that high and 

 useful character which its admirable Living Collection and 

 splendid Museum have established throughout most parts of 

 the world. In testimony of this determination of the Coun- 

 cil, your Committee state that the general Expenditure of 

 the year 1840, as compared with the preceding year, exhibits 

 a decrease of £110 13s. 9rf., making together, with the 

 further decrease of the large sum of £1688 Os. 3d. under 

 the head of " Buildings," of which none appear to have been 

 undertaken during the past year, the total sum of £l798 14s. 



