£800, will enable them to conclude the operations of the 

 year 1853 with the smallest possible amount of Liabilities, 

 and without any further diminution of the Reserve Fund. 



c. Assets and Liabilities. 



The Cash Assets of the Society on the 31st of De- 

 cember 1852 amounted to — 



Money at the Bankers «^^P^ . ? ? 



Paid for £5000 stock (actual value £5000) £4472 19 4 



Debts due on account of Garden Sales . . £223 6 



Subscriptions in arrear, say ..... ^^^9 



Total . . . £5405 1 10 



The Liabilities at the same period amounted to 

 £3637 10s. 5d. J . r. 



The diminution of the money balance as compared with 

 1851 was therefore £6533 2s. 9d., but there still re- 

 mained £1767 11^. 5d. in favour of the Society inde- 

 pendent of the increased value of the Buildings and Collec- 

 tion, which may be taken together at an approximate 

 amount at £5500, and consequently the actual property of 

 the Society suflfered but little diminution, notwithstanding 

 the great deficiencies of the Income derived from Receipts 

 at the Garden Gate. 



IL PUBLICATIONS. 



The Third Part of the Fourth Volume of the Transac- 

 tions is now ready for delivery, and contains an elaborate 

 investigation of the Cranial capacity of the Gorilla, form- 

 ino- the seventh Paper by Professor Owen on the Anatomy 

 of°the Anthropoid Apes. It is illustrated with five plates, 

 by Mr Ford, of which it is not too much to say, that tor 

 truth and delicacy of execution they have never been 

 excelled in any country. This Part of the Transactions 

 will be immediately followed by , the Fourth, which will 

 contain Papers by Mr. H. E. Strickland and Mr. Broderip 

 on the Dodo, and a Monograph of the Strigtdce by Dr. 

 Kaup. The eighth Paper of Professor Owen's series on 

 the Anthropoid Apes is in the press, and will be published 

 as soon as the illustrations are completed. 



