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INCOME. 



The items in the foregoing Statement, on the side of In- 

 come, to which the Auditors take leave to draw the attention 

 of the Society", are, 



1st, With regard to the smallness of the sum received for 

 "Admission Fees" during the past year, the amount being 

 only £50. 



2ndly, The continued diminution of the sum received from 

 "Annual Subscriptions," this amount being only £3910 8s., 

 for 1843, which is £487 5*. less than in the year 1842. 



The annual falling off in this source of Income is announced 

 with much regret and anxiety by your Committee, and they 

 cannot help coming to the conclusion that the present privi- 

 leges of Fellowship are not of a character sufficient to justify 

 a hope of any increase in the number of its members. 



The Auditors are happy to find that, notwithstanding the 

 unfavourable Spring, and the non- completion of the Carnivora 

 Dens until the Autumn, the receipts from the PubUc at the 

 Gardens have only decreased by the sum of £276 3*. 



Your Committee, with the most unfeigned respect for the 

 zeal and ability with which our highly talented Council con- 

 duct the affairs of the Society, are nevertheless of opinion that 

 hitherto the Fellows at large, and the public generally, have 

 not been made sufficiently acquainted with the various new 

 attractions as they arise in the Gardens, through the usual 

 channels of publicity, after the manner of some other Scien- 

 tific Institutions, especially when it is considered that nearly 

 half the Income of this Society is derived from the Public. 



EXPENDITURE. 



Your Committee noAv come to a more pleasing part of their 

 duty, — they cannot sufficiently applaud the economy enforced 

 by the Council in the " Ordinary Expenditure," in which 

 there is a decrease of no less a sum than £1018 18*. 3d. 

 The " Extraordinary Expenditure " is necessarily large, 

 arising from the sums expended on those highly important 

 buildings, the Museum and the Carnivora Dens ; this sum. 



