The combination of these circumstances led the Council 

 to determine, contrary to their previous intention, as ex- 

 pressed in their last Report, that the reconstruction of the 

 Reservoir, vrhich is now lined entirely with brick, and can 

 be thoroughly cleansed as often as occasion arises, ought 

 not to be longer delayed, and they accordingly executed 

 this improvement in the month of August last. With 

 the exception of this new work, the whole expenditure was 

 devoted to repairs which could not be safely delayed, and 

 to very extensive painting, which appeared to be equally 

 urgent; the Council having full intention to adhere as 

 closely as possible to the resolution which they announced 

 in their last report, to commence no new work of import- 

 ance until the funded capital has been restored to £5000 

 stock. So much was effected both in painting and in other 

 repairs during the last year, that the Council are enabled 

 to contract the expenditure in this department during the 

 current season to a more narrow limit than has hitherto 

 been practicable. 



5. The Gardener's Department has of late excited 

 so much gratification, both to the Fellows and to the Public, 

 that the Council felt unwilling to curtail the amount of 

 labour employed in it. 



The purchase of Plants and Seeds, amounting to ^61 79 

 3*. 4d., exceeded the ordinary expenditure by a consider- 

 able sum ; but it has placed the Establishment in a condi- 

 tion which will obviate the necessity of similar additions to 

 the stock for some time to come ; and the expenditure of 

 the current year in this department will be strictly limited 

 to £500. 



6. The Publications, which have involved payments to 

 the amount of £785 I9s. 8d., include the preparation of one 

 Part of the Transactions in 4to, with 12 Plates ; and 3 Vols, 

 of the Proceedings in 8vo, with 98 Plates, most of which are 

 coloured. The greater part of this expenditure will how- 

 ever be returned to the Society, either by actual money 

 receipts derived from the sale of the Transactions and the 

 Illustrated Edition of the Proceedings ; or by value in the 

 Publications of other Societies, which are received in ex- 

 change from every country in Europe, and from several 

 institutions in America. 



