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lected, and unless some steps are taken during the ensuing year to call in at least a 
per centage on the amounts subscribed, much of what appears to the credit of the 
Fund on paper, may be lost altogether. 
The Council have hitherto refrained from urging the payment of their subserip- 
tions upon the contributors to the Fund, as in consequence of the pressure of the 
times, it was not deemed expedient to proceed with the building, and it therefore: 
seemed unreasonable to press for subscriptions which were not immediately 
required. But as there is every reason to hope that the time is not far distant 
when returning prosperity and the improved financial condition of the country, will 
justify the Council in proceeding with the work, it seems to them most desirable 
that some efforts should in the mean time be made, to place the Fund on a more 
satisfactory footing. Until the Institute is installed in a permanent house of its 
own, it can scarcely be expected that any satisfactory progress will be made in; 
carrying out one of the special objects for which the Society was instituted—the 
formation of a Museum illustrative of the Natural History, the Geological and 
Mineral products, and the economic and industrial resources of the Provinee. It 
is true that many valuable contributions have already been made to our collection, 
but with our present limited accommodation, and the uncertainty as to future ar- 
rangements, if is impossible to render this department of any practical utility or 
interest either to the members generally ov to the public at large, The Council 
therefore venture to hope that the liberality of the friends of the Institute and the 
exertions of its Members, will enable their successors to place the Building Fund 
on a more satisfactory footing. and that the impediments which have hitherto in- 
terposed theniselves to the commencement of the building itself, will speedily be 
removed. 
TREASURER’S REPORT, 1859. 
Statement of the Canadian Institute General Account for 1859. 
Dr. 
Cash Balance from last year ......-.-.....se+0-- .. £420 16 0 
“ Received from Members .............-..+. -. , 204 18 10 
“Journal and Periodicals ............... SO 47 16 7 
“ Parliamentary Grant ....... 300006 Agmconoso 4) Oo 
pacuel bya Mennbens)iaecleliale-tel-be)< deaucsenaccod | cee) By 
“due for sale of Journal (old series)...........- 20 17 6 
a “ “ (mew serieS) ........0% 56 16 3 
£1350 17 10. 
Cr. 
Cash paid on account of Journal (1858) ........... : TVG 
“ a “ (Asbo) ered (revue Moor tay ees 
“ " Hibtary 22... Sccoode Seite 8410 74 
es ‘6 Museum ...... re Neraites shod 5 16 114 
st ‘ Sundries ......... ae aceite ORL Sr) RAR 
«due on account of Journal ............. Soube 387 10 0 
uy . Sundries...... pandoussoood 2417 3 
- Balance in favor of the Institute ...........:..++.- 786 6 11 
——— £1350 17 1¢ 
