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The Expenditure was as follows :— 
Stationery, Printing, etc., ; ; . £638: 4°56 
Jeweller’s Account for Medals, etc., fur 
years 1892 and 1893, : ss a Loom 
Prizes paid in Money, ; : : : 710 O 
Advertising, : 2 19 6 
Honorarium and REperbes to nena of 
Excursion Report, : : : : 3° 3. Y 
Office Rent, . 3 : : Pro? ae 
Secretary and Treasurer’s suse with 
Income Tax thereon, . : : .. OD, 1 see 
Martin & Company, Windsor, . : : 612 0 
Postages and Petty Expenses, . t : 9.14570 
Sundries, . : 3 : 4 , 4 SSNS 
Total Payments, . . £168 11 6 
Showing adeficitof . £219 8 
Subscriptions in arrear amounted to £137, 19s. 10d., and the 
Nett Funds of the Society were £85, 11s. 8d. 
Mr W. H. Massiz, Edinburgh, subjected the Statement to 
severe criticism, and asked for information particularly as to the 
reduction in recent years of the Funds of the Society. The 
Chairman promised Mr Massiz that any questions he might desire 
to ask would be answered, and full information given, upon 
application to the proper sourcs. Thereafter, on the motion of 
Mr M. Duyn, seconded by Mr D. P. Latirp, the Report was 
adopted. 
Tue Prize Essays AND AWARDS. 
Mr ALExanDER Mine, Convener of the Judges, then read the 
Report on the Essays, and the following Awards were made in 
accordance therewith,—the sealed envelope accompanying each 
Essay being opened by the Secretary, and the author’s name 
announced to the Meeting. 
JUDGES Report. 
Report on the Essays, and other Papers, sent in Competition to 
the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society in 1894. 
The Essays sent in this year for adjudication number seventeen. 
They are, as a rule, of an average standard of excellence. The 
