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These facts will be more clearly seen by an examination 
of the subjoined Table of Comparison of the various heads 
of Income of 1873 and 1874. 
Income of 
Increase. | Decrease. 
1874. 
Admission Fees :— d. Ee A 
DGD astsctrercecrerrr ne pena 0 125 0 0 
PPROSCM Gs so tccnscanandhascntachs 0} 920 0 0 
Annual Subscriptions :— 
Pll Aap reepapagacocosr ene eae 0 135 0 0 
Present 0} 6,203 0 0 
Future 0 93 0 0 
Compositions .... 0} 1,350 0 0 
Ivory Tickets ............ 0 5917 0 
Admissions to Gardens = 6/16,759 16 O}.. 
Garden Sales swe] 930 2 8] 633 6 9)... 
Rent for Refreshment-rooms .... 902 0 0} 898 38 4)... 
POW OaH OWS iss ixaupgotds-=<ephesdsdureh 765 9 9} 900 1 8 
MUIVAREMGUN Ser sharseons-anscheavccesvtess 236 10 0 279 10 10 
Interest on Davis Bequest ...... 5819 4 59 4 4 
Miscellaneous ......csccsseeserseyees 0 5 & Ls 0 
28,099 3 .11128,417 4 11 952 19 1 63418 1 
To this Income of £28,417 4s. 11d. must be added the 
balance of £1384 7s. 7d. carried over from 1873. This 
gave a total sum of £29,801 12s. 6d. available for the ex- 
penditure of the year 1874. 
b. Expenditure. 
This sum of £29,801 12s. 6d. was disposed of in the 
following manner:—The sum of £25,577 12s. 7d. was 
required for the expenditure of the year 1874; the sum of 
£747 9s. 9d. was invested in Reduced 3 per Cents, ac- 
cording to the arrangements announced by the Council in 
their last Reports; and the further sum of £2000 was 
placed on deposit on the security of a corresponding 
amount of Reduced 3 per Cent. Certificates, in the 
anticipation of being required during the present year. 
This left at the bankers’, on the 31st December 1874, 
a sum of £1476 10s. 2d., which was carried over to meet 
the ordinary expenses of the current year. 
Of the total expenditure of 1874, the sum of £22,688 15s. 
was devoted to ordinary expenditure—that is, to the main- 
tenance of the whole establishment of the Society in a 
thorough state of efficiency. The corresponding amount 
expended in 1873 was £22,721 3s. 11d., which shows that 
the ordinary expenditure of the Society was not increased 
during the year. The sum of £2888 17s. 7d. was devoted 
