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The Income of the Society during the previous eight 
years, 1863 to 1870, was as follows :— 
£ £ 
USCS Mess 5 5s 20,284 i Pole Ba em eS 25,042 
‘tol st oi iiaege 21,713 TSCS yeh ae 24,958 
1S 7 eRe 23,457 TS60' 1 ee 22,768 
WEGG* e255: 24,379 1870S, 23,257 
giving an average annual Income of £23,232. 
It thus appears that the Income of the past year has 
exceeded the average of the eight years immediately pre- 
ceding it by the sum of £1388. 
The Council can point with particular gratification to 
the steady annual increase of the amount realized by the 
admission of the public on week-days to the Society’s 
Gardens, which still continues. In 1871 the sum received 
under this head was £13,813 4s., being £608 5s. 6d. more 
than the corresponding amount received in 1870, and con- 
siderably exceeding the sum thus received in any of the 
last eight years, as will be seen by the subjoined Table :— 
Amounts received for ‘Admissions to the Gardens,” 1863-71. 
< £ 
RBA zit 4 11,781 TREBI Ad ouch 12,651 
1g6d betta: 12,703 USED) SLIDE . 12,865 
WR GIns fee). te 12,889 IBFOT es vdiac 13,204 
ipower 12,428 fers Ce 13,818 
LORIE S 12,840 
The large increase of the amount realized by the “ Com- 
positions ” paid in lieu of Annual Subscriptions is also a 
noticeable feature in the Table of Income for 1871. 
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b. Expenditure. 
The balance of £968 6s. 1d. carried over from 1870 
added to the Income of 1871, gave a total of £25,588 
17s. 6d. available for the expenditure of 1871. This sum 
was disposed of in the following manner. The sum of 
£21,367 19s. 9d. was required for the ordinary Expendi- 
ture of the Society. The sum of £669 9s. 10d. was devoted 
to extraordinary Expenditure. This raised the total ex- 
penditure for the year 1871 to £22,037 9s. 7d. The sum 
of £1506 5s. Od. was devoted to repayment of the prin- 
