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In examining these, it is very satisfactory to note that, 
although there is a considerable falling off under several 
heads, the main source of the Society’s large Income (that 
of money received from visitors for entrance into the Gar- 
dens) not only continues unimpaired, but shows a solid 
increase of £214 over the previous year. The amount to 
be realized from “Garden sales” must necessarily vary 
from year to year, depending as it does upon the quantity 
of surplus stock to be disposed of, and the possibility of 
finding purchasers for objects that are not always very 
easily saleable. The decrease in “Admission fees” and 
* Compositions ” is attributable to the smaller number of 
new Fellows elected in 1869. It could hardly be expected 
that the extraordinary increase of candidates for the Fellow- 
ship of the Society which has shown itself during the last 
four or five years could be continued for an unlimited 
period; but so long as the number of new Members 
remains in excess of the number of vacancies caused 
by death, resignation, and removal, the Council see no 
cause for anxiety on this subject. 
To the Income must be added the sum of £2757 10s., 
being the proceeds of the sale of £3000 worth of Reduced 
£3 per cents. purchased with surplus Income in former 
years, the sum of £1000, being the amount of a tem- 
porary loan from the Society’s Bankers, which has since 
been paid off, and the sum of £873 12s. 7d., being the 
balance brought over from the previous year. These ad- 
ditions made a total sum of £27,400 Os. 11d. available for 
the expenditure of the year 1869. 
b. Expenditure. 
This sum of £27,400 Os. 11d. was disposed of in the 
following manner. The sum of £19,539 2s. 10d. was re- 
quired for the ordinary Expenditure of the Society. The 
sum of £6209 16s. 6d. was devoted to extraordinary Ex- 
penditure. After paying the interest and expenses on a 
temporary loan of £1500 borrowed from the Bankers’ and 
subsequently repaid, this left a balance of £1623 3s. 6d. 
at the Society’s Bankers’ on the 31st of December last, 
which was carried forward for the benefit of the present 
year’s account. 
The subjoined Table gives the yarious items of the 
