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Comparative Table of Receipts from Admissions to the 
Gardens in 1851 and 1862. 
1851. 1862. Increase. Decrease. 
£ ed. | °& i iy lie 8. d EF pat a | 
Ordinary days at 1s.) 15,085 GC OWLATSEIOrOts Hvis. 2,948 16 0 
Mondays, &c. at 6d.) 6,145 06 7,654 18 6 | 1,509 18 0}  ..... 
Children at 6d. ...| 31,017 17 0 CN AE S/S a 101 96 
22,248 3 6 |20,707 160] 1,509 18 0 | 3,050 5 6 
20,707 16 0 1,509 18 0 
Increase in favour 
Or lsol wea. TAO FIG Ree DEE |S 1,540 76 
While the greater part of the Society’s increased receipts 
during the past year is thus to be attributed to the extra- 
ordinary circumstances caused by the International Exhibi- 
tion, it is satisfactory, on comparison of the receipts in 1861 
and 1862, to observe an augmentation of several other heads 
of income. Amongst these may be particularly noticed 
the large sum of £900, received from Fellows who have 
paid the composition-fee in lieu of annual subscriptions, 
and thus testified that the interest they take in the Society 
is likely to be continuous. The amount received in 1861 
under the same head was £450. 
The cash-surplus carried forward to the Society’s credit 
from the year 1861 was £846 5s. This sum added to the 
amount of Income received during the year gave the total 
sum of £28,243 10s. 6d. available for the expenditure of 
the year 1862.- 
4, EXPENDITURE. 
_ This sum of £28,243 10s. 6d. was disposed of in the 
following way. The sum of £18,713 10s. 3d. was required 
to meet the ordinary and extraordinary charges paid during 
the year, including the sum of £1737 6s. 7d., which was 
the amount of the arrears of 1861 unpaid on the Ist of 
January, 1862. The sum of £7410 was invested in the 
purchase of £8000 3 per cent. Reduced Stock, thus raising 
the total of the Society’s reserve-fund at the close of the 
year 1862 to the amount of £14,000 Reduced 3 per cents. 
There was therefore left to the credit of the Society, on the 
termination of the year, a cash-balance of £2120 Os. 3d., 
in their banker’s hands. It will be observed that the re- 
ceipts exceeded the expenditure of the year 1862 to the 
amount of £8683. 
