Treasurer's Report. 43 



Brought forward, £234 17 3 

 By Rent of Hall, £15 



— Fire Insurance, 3 11 



— Gas, 1 13 11 



20 4 11 



— Cleaning Hall, and petty charges, 2 3 9 



— Eent of M'Lellan Eooms for Professor Eogers' 



Lecture and Expenses, 15 16 



— Balance — 



Cash in Union and Savings 



Banks, £62 6 



Cash in Treasurer's hands, .. . 14 9 



63 9 



£336 2 8 



The Philosophical Society's Exhibition Fund. 

 1855. 

 May 15. — To Balance per Deposit Receipt from Corpora- 

 tion of Glasgow, £647 14 8 



1856. 

 May 15. — Interest to this date 29 3 2 



£676 17 10 



We have examined the Treasurer's Account, and compared the same with the Vouchers, 

 and iind that there are in the Union Bank of Scotland Fifty-eight Pounds and Fifteen Shil- 

 Ungs ; in the Savings Bank, Three Pounds and Eleven Shillings ; and in the Treasurer's 

 hands. Fourteen Shillings and Ninepence, — together. Sixty-three Pounds and Ninepence, at 

 the Society's credit at this date. 



The Treasurer has also exhibited to us a Voucher which he holds for money lent the Cor- 

 poration of Glasgow, from the proceeds of the Philosophical Society's Exhibition in 1846, 

 with interest thereon to 15th May, 1856, being £676 17s. lOd. 



THOMAS DAWSON. 



MATTHEW P. BELL. 



Rbpoet by the Tebastjeeb, Novembee 1, 1856. 



Tlie moveable property of the Society remains the same as last year, with the addition of 

 new books purchased since that time. 



The number of members at the commencement of Session 1855-6 was 263 



New members admitted during the Session, 42 



305 



