domestic Animals, one of the objects in the foundation of 

 the Society, have established Premiums for various de- 

 scriptions of Poultry, &c., — an object of considerable im- 

 portance, and which has been long wanted in the Metro- 

 polis and neighbouring counties. This, together with the 

 attraction of the Promenades for the Members and their 

 friends, now placed on a more extended footing, will, it is 

 anticipated, tend to the improvement of the Society's 

 Funds. 



h. Assets and Liabilities. 



The available assets of the Society at the end of 1844, 

 viz. Cash in hand, and Capital invested in the Funds, 

 were less by £2341 5*. lOrf. than they were at the close 

 of the previous year, which circvmistance has already been 

 accounted for by the increased charges under the head of 

 Extraordinaries. The estimated liabilities on the 31st of 

 December 1844 were nearly £1000 less than they were at 

 the corresponding period of 1843. 



II. SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENT. 



Publications. 



Two Parts of the Transactions of the Society have been 

 published during the past yeai*, and a third is in a state of 

 considerable forwardness. 



The volume of Proceedings for the last year is now in 

 the hands of the binder, and will be found to contain de- 

 scriptions of a large number of new species of Mammals, 

 Birds, Shells, &c. 



The monthly numbers of the Proceedings for 1845 are 

 in print up to the first of the present month, and are now 

 in course of issue to the Fellows of the Society. 



