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The extraordinary Expenditure of the Society, under 
which head are placed all sums devoted to the permanent 
benefit of the Garden Establishment, and occasionally 
other charges, amounted, as has been above stated, in the 
past year to the sum of £97 14 14s. 1d. Of this the sum 
of £2228 17s. 3d. was devoted to new buildings and works 
in the Gardens, and the sum of £485 16s. 10d. was expended 
on special charges connected with the Menagerie, as will be 
fully explained in the parts of the Report relating to these 
portions of the Society’s establishment. 
c. Reserve Fund. 
The Society’s principal Reserve Fund consists of a sum of 
£10,000 3 per Cents Reduced, in which no change has 
been made since the last Anniversary. To this has been 
added, as a temporary reserve, the sum of £2605 14s., 
invested in the purchase of £2000 Exchequer Bills on the 
7th of July, 1866. 
d. Assets and Liabilities. 
The Cash Assets of the Society on the 31st of Decem- 
ber 1866 amounted to— 
Loe Gs 
Cash at the Banker’s . . Usisye Bs 
Cost of £10,000 Reduedd 
Sper Cents . . 9356 2 10 
Cost of £2000 Bich! Bills 2005 14 O 
vier 12,746 0 O 
The sums due to the Society for arrears 
on the 3lst of December 1865 were esti- 
mated as follows :— 
Annual Subscriptions . . 317 0 O 
Evory Vrekete.! 37). 09> 218018" 0 
Publications . . . . .190 010 
Garden Sales. . . . .912 8 O 
— 1438 6 10 
14,184 6 10 
The Liabilities at the same period were esti- 
mated’ atl! G6 B08 pic eg. ano x2 We £2 200KR410 
Leaving a Balance in favourof the Societyof£11,884 2 0 
