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All these gentlemen are capable of affording most valu- 
able cooperation in the objects of the Society. 
The only Foreign Member elected since the last Anni- 
versary has been Dr. P. von Bleeker of Leyden, a distin- 
guished and most active naturalist, well known for his 
extensive researches in Indian ichthyology. 
3. FINANCES. 
a. Income. 
The state of the Income of the Society during the past 
year, although not quite equal to that of the very favourable 
year which preceded it, cannot be regarded as otherwise than 
very satisfactory. The severe financial pressure that con- 
tinued throughout the greater part of the year1861, and pro- 
duced, as is well known, a large diminution in the receipts of 
the principal railways and other public companies, naturally 
also exercised some effect on the Society’s income, drawn 
as it is in a great measure from the public at large. The 
total amount of receipts from every source during the year 
was £16,072 4s. 9d., against a corresponding sum of 
£16,863 18s. 11d. received in 1860, and showing a falling 
off to the amount of £791 14s. 2d. But on examination 
of the Table of the Society’s Income during the thirty-four 
years of its existence, it will be found that the year 1861 
occupies a high place on the list. In only seven years 
during these thirty-four have the total receipts reached 
to so large a sum, and in two of the years it must be 
recollected the Society’s income was augmented by ex- 
traordinary circumstances beyond its usual amount. If 
the average Income of the Society during the previous six 
years, which is, on the whole, perhaps a fairer test, is taken, 
it will be found to have amounted to £15,048, so that the 
Income of the year 1861 exceeds the average of the six 
preceding years by more than £1000. 
The amount carried forward to the Society’s credit from 
the year 1860 was £1748 7s. 9d., which, added to the 
income received during the year, made a total sum of 
£17,820 12s. 6d. available for the year’s expenditure. 
The receipts from entrances to the Gardens during the 
year were £9757 13s. This amount, though less by 
£297 3s. than the sum received from the same source in 
1860, is greater than the corresponding amount for any of 
the previous five years, and places the year 1861 seventh 
