5 



£12,342 35. 'Jd., and of 1858, when it was only £12,039 

 \\s. 9d., proves that this amount may be taken as the ave- 

 rage for the future. 



There being every probability that the Income will 

 be kept up to an average of £14,500, the Council feel 

 assured that they will now be enabled to add, from the 

 surplus in each year, to the improvements of which the 

 Establishment is still amply susceptible. 



It appears to them that the financial position to which 

 they have thus conducted the affairs of the Society is a 

 perfectly sound one ; and they trust that the wide-spread 

 support which their labours continue to receive as regards 

 the Living Collection, will tend to increase and consolidate 

 the public sympathy, on which the vitality of the Revenue 

 depends. 



c. Assets and Liabilities. 



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

 ber 1858 amounted to — 



£ «. d. 



Cash at the Banker's 1420 16 3 



Cost of £4500 Red. 3 per Cents . . . 4078 7 4 



5499 3 j 



The Liabilities at the same period were esti- 

 mated at 850 



Leaving a Cash Balance in favour of the So- 

 ciety of 4649 3 7 



presenting an increase of £1908 0*. lie?, as compared with 

 the same day of the preceding year. 



II. PUBLICATIONS. 



Since the last Anniversary three Parts of the Illustrated 

 Proceedings for 1858 have been issued. 



Part I., pubHshed on the 1st of May, contains ten 



Plates. 

 Part IL, published on the 1st of September, contains 



ten Plates. 

 Part III., published in November, also contains ten 



Plates. 



