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JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVIL 



ACCOUNTS FOR 1919. 



Mr. H. F. Lodga. the Honorary Treasurer, in presenting the accounts 

 for the year ended 31st December 1919, said that a copy of the audited- 

 balance sheet was on the table for the inspection of members and this 

 would as usual be published in the Society's journal. The following, 

 however, were the main features of the accounts of the past year. On ist 

 January 1919, the Society opened with a credit balance of Rs. 14,727-5-8 

 and during the year this figure was increased to Rs. 15,168-12-11, the cash 

 balance shown on the 31st December 1919. The receipts during the year 

 under review amounted to Rs. 33,767-4-8 which shows a decrease of 

 Rs. 2 203, when compared with the corresponding figures of the previous 

 year. The expenditure during the year 1919 amounted to Rs. 34,196-14-8 

 and this figure shows an increase of Rs. 9,719-10-11 over the corresponding 

 figures for 1918. 



The increase in expenditure was easily understood as the Society in 

 common with every other institution had lately had to pay considerable 

 more for every thing required to carry on it8 work. In spite of this the Socie- 

 ty had not increased the annual subscription which remains at Rs. 15 and 

 it was hoped to avoid having to do so. Indications for 1920 pointed to the 

 fact that expenditure generally would be still further increased and to 

 counteract the rise in prices every efi'ort ought to be made to increase the 

 revenues of the Society and this can best be done by the enrolment of new 

 members. It is therefore hoped that members would do their best to inter- 

 est their friends who were not already members in the work of the Society 

 with a view to their being enrolled as members. 



Since the close of the year ended 31st December 1918, 125 members had 

 joined the Society and 52 had resigned or died, making a net increase of 73 

 to the membership of the Society which now totalled 1,821. During the year 

 1918 the membership of the Society had been increased by 84. The slight 

 decrease in the number of new members during 1919 must not be taken as 

 an indication that the Society was losing its popularity. The Society was 

 full of vitality and its members were to be found in all parts of India, 

 Burma and Ceylon. Now that we had come to the end of the first year of 



