98 TRANSACTIONS AND PEOCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lv. 



Payments. 



Printing Transactions, Billets, &c., . . . ^147 17 11 

 Lithographing Plates ii., iii., iv., v., vi., and Engrav- 

 ing woodcuts, . . . . . . 15 6 



Assistant Secretary's Salary, . . . . 15 



Do., balance of last year's Salary, 10 



Eooms for Meetings, and Teas, .... 620 



Commission paid to Collector, . . . . 1 18 1 



Postages, Carriages, &:c., 7 14 9 



Sundries, 11 



£204 4 3 



State of Funds. 



Amount of Funds at close of Session 1888-89, £164 4 8 

 Decrease during Session 1889-90, . . . 100 11 3 



— i'63 13 5 



Being : — Sum on Deposit Eeceipt with 



Union Bank of Scotland, . . £60 

 Sum on Current Account with do. . 4 5 4 



£64 5 4 

 Less sum due to Treasurer, . 11 11 



63 13 5 



Edinburgh, Id May 1891. — I have compared the above Account of 

 the Treasurer with the Cash Book and Vouchers, and List of Members, 

 and find them correct. T. B. Sprague, Auditor. 



Til explanation of the decrease in the Funds of the Society 

 during the session, it was pointed out that there had heen an 

 unusual expenditure incurred in the ])ul:)lieation of the 

 vohime of the Transactions, which was nearly three times as 

 large as usual, and contained a number of papers of excep- 

 tional interest. 



Presents to the Library at the lloyal Botanic Garden were 

 announced. 



Mr Malcolm Dunn exhibited specimens of several genera 

 of liardy Japanese shrubs grown in tlu; gardens at Dalkeith, 

 and in describing them remarked tluit they were all of an 



