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Society’s affairs. The income of the Society increases year 
by year, and by its excess over the ordinary expenditure 
enables the Council to make yearly additions of a perma- 
nent nature to the Garden-establishment. The natural 
result of this is an increase in the number of persons de- 
sirous of becoming Fellows of the Society and of sharing 
in the privileges attached to membership. A large aug- 
mentation of the roll of Members has been thus effected 
during the last few years, and there seems every prospect 
of a further increase of the same nature. 
In adverting to this prosperous state of affairs, the 
Council have to acknowledge their obligations to those 
Fellows of the Society who have so materially assisted them 
in the execution of their duties by acting on the several 
Committees of Audit, Finance, and Publication during the 
past year. 
Signed for the Council, 
P. L. ScLaTER, 
Secretary. 
11 Hanover Square, April 29th, 1867, 
