ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS 



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Read January 24///, 1907. 

 By Robert Adkin, F.E.S. 



(~* entlemen, — The Report of the Council and the Balance- 

 ^- I sheet that have been read to you will have put you in 

 possession of the chief items of interest in regard to the 

 Society's year, and you will, I doubt not, agree with me in 

 considering that they show the affairs of the Society to be in 

 a satisfactory condition. 



With regard to the Balance-sheet I should perhaps give a 

 word of explanation. It will be noticed that the credit 

 balance in this year's general account is very much smaller 

 than it has been for many former years; this, however, is 

 purely a matter of book-keeping, and does not exhibit any 

 less satisfactory financial position this year than formerly. 

 It has been the custom to keep separate accounts for the 

 printing of " Proceedings " and for the library, and to credit 

 them respectively only with, in the one case, any donations 

 and cash received for sale of " Proceedings,' 7 and, in the 

 other, with the library fines and any votes for binding or the 

 purchase of special books, any excess of expenditure over 

 such receipts being carried forward as a debit balance in 

 those accounts. Now, a portion of each year's income should 

 properly be applied to these purposes, and in order to put 

 these two accounts on their proper footing the Council have 

 voted to each of them from the general account a sum 

 sufficient to approximately balance them. This does not 



