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aye 
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The Auditors congratulate the Society on the continued 
improvement of its position and prospects. The Receipts 
from December 1862 to December 1863 have exceeded those 
during every other twelvemonth of the Society’s existence, 
except the years of the General Exhibitions, 1851 and 1862, 
while an increase under all but three heads of revenue ap- 
pears, even when compared with those two most favoured 
periods. 
The Annual Subscriptions exceed in amount those received 
in any one of the last seventeen years; more Compositions 
have been made than in any one of the last thirty-four years, 
and the Garden Sales surpass those of any year of the last 
ten, while the Admission Fees are larger than they have 
been in any one year during the last quarter of a century. 
The number of Fellows is at present considerably greater 
than it has been during the last fifteen years, no less than 
164 persons (far surpassing the number that have joined the 
Society any year during the last twenty-five years) having 
been elected Members of the Society in 1863. 
In conclusion, your Auditors assure the Society of their 
entire concurrence in the opinion of their predecessors, as to 
the admirably clear and accurate manner in which the ac- 
counts have been arranged and laid before them by the Ac- 
countant Mr. Leigh, whose conduct cannot be too highly 
praised, and whose knowledge and management of the sub- 
ject appears perfect. 
EDW. GREENAWAY. 
EDWARD JOHNSTONE. 
WILLIAM MARTYN. 
BENJAMIN LEADBEATER. 
G. C. TAYLOR. 
JAMES TENNANT. 
R. HENRY S. VYVYAN. 
11 Hanover Square, 
February 23, 1864. ele. 
PRESENTED 
2 4 APR. 150% 
