2. Finances. 

 a. Income. 



The great financial object to which the efforts of the 

 Council have been directed during the last four years, has 

 been the Increase of Income. 



The results of the policy which they have steadfastly pur- 

 sued, at first with moderate, but always with encouraging 

 success, have now placed the pecuniary resources of the 

 Society upon a firm basis, with every prospect of a still 

 greater advance during the current year. 



The gross Income of 1S50 having amounted to £14,957 

 10s. 5d. gives the remarkable increase of 



£6186 Os. 9d. over 1849, 

 £6/92 9s. 2d. over 1848, 

 £7191 14*. lid. over 1847. 



The analysis of the Income of 1850 presents the follow- 

 ing subjects of remark. 



The only head under which a decrease of any importance 

 has taken place is that of Subscriptions, in which how- 

 ever it only amounts to £138 17*. 



In the income derivable from Admission Fees and Life 

 Compositions thei-e is an increase of £260, which affords a 

 gratifying proof of confidence in the improving state of the 

 Society's affairs. It is therefore hoped by the Council that 

 as the extension of Fellows' Privileges become more Avidely 

 known, and as the objects of the Society are more tho- 

 roughly appreciated, a still stronger impulse may be given 

 to this essential source of prosperity. 



The products of the sale of Duplicate Animals have, as 

 anticipated in the last report, considerably exceeded those 

 of 1849, the total amount received under this head being 

 £724 7*- This sum is to be regarded as a fund in aid of 

 the expenditure for acquisitions; for it is in consequence 

 of the accumulation of novelties which the Council have 

 been enabled to secure, that this element of income has 

 been developed to its present importance. 



In the sum derived from the sale of the Society's Pub- 

 lications there is an increase of £73 16*. 2d., and there 

 is no doubt, from the favourable manner in which they 

 have been received, that during the present year this item 



