40TH ANNUAL REPORT, iqoi. 



139 



The financial position of the Union is shown by the statement of 

 assets and liabilities, as follows : — 



ASSETS. 



' Naturalist.' 



£ s. d. 



Cash in hand 2 3 2 



Subscriptions owing' . . 41 8 q 



General Account. 



Cash in hand i 6 6 



Subscriptions owing" . . ,^486 



Stock Valuations. 



^'alllation of Book Cases, 

 1-iooks, Stock of Trans- 

 actions, Flora, Natural- 

 ist, etc., estimated to 

 produce 182 o o 



Lc-ss 20 per cent, deprecia- 

 tion 37 o o 



Additions in igoi — 



Book C.ise 400 



Stock of Naturalist ... r2 o o 

 Stock of parts 23, 24, 25. 



26, 27, of Transactions 15 00 



Hooks Added 10 o o 



LIABILITIES. 



Balance due to Treasurer 



' Naturalist.' 



Accounts unpaid 57 18 o 



Probable cost of Nov, and 

 Dec, issues 21 o o 



s. d. 



78 i3 o 



General Account. 



Owing- to Secretary for Expenses .. o ig o 



Transactions. 



28 10 o 

 58 o o 



86 10 o 



'79 i^ 5 



Balance, of .Assets over Liabilities ... 85 14 o 



Account unpaid 



Probable cost of parts 24, 

 25, 26, 27 



£.26$ 6 



The separate account for 'The Naturalist' is as follows, showing- 

 a deficiency of about ^25, against which has to be set a considerable 

 amount of stock of back volumes and numbers ; and the amount due 

 from the London publishers for copies sold through the trade, of 

 which no statement is yet to hand : — 



'THE NATURALIST.' 



I^eceipts in i()oi 

 Subscriptions owlnfj 



Biilancr 



£ s. d. 



151 8 g I Payments m igoi 



^2 



Liabilities to cMid of jgoi 



£ s. d. 

 ■38 IS 6 

 78 18 o 



J^-"7 iJ 



