c. Assets and Liabilities. 



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

 cember 1S5-1 amounted to — 



£ s. d. 



Money at the Bankers 362 15 5 



Paid for £3000 Red. 3 per Cent. Stock 

 Due on account of Subscriptions . 

 J, „ Ivory Tickets . 



„ 5, Publications . . 



„ ,, Garden Sales . . 



2635 2 4 



422 



■770 



88 13 



3 



Total . . . £3518 17 9 



The Liabilities at the same time amounted to £2834 

 17*. 



II. PUBLICATIONS. 



During the year which has elapsed since the last An- 

 niversary, the arrears of the Proceedings, with the excep- 

 tion of the last Meeting in 1854, and one other number 

 now in the press, have been brought up to the latest date, 

 and the letter-press of the current year, as far as the 10th 

 of April, is now ready for delivery to the Fellows. Nearly 

 the whole of the Illustrative Plates have been executed up 

 to the close of 1854, and the issue of them will take place 

 as soon as the colourist has completed his work. 



Arrangements have been made which will ensure the 

 issue of the Proceedings in monthly or bimonthly por- 

 tions, and render them one of the most rapid vehicles of 

 zoological publication in Europe. The quality of the 

 Illustrations, in Avhich the vertebrate portion is mainly 

 from the hand of Mr. Wolf, is admitted to be unrivalled 

 in the periodical literature of Natural History. 



Papers by Professor Owen on the Anatomy of the Ant- 

 eater, and of the Anthropoid Apes, are in preparation for 

 the next Part of the Transactions. 



III. LIBRARY. 



The usual additions of Scientific Periodicals have been 

 made to the Library, principally from publishing Societies 

 in exchange for the Society's works. 



The series of original Drawings, alluded to in former 



