xxvi Annual Report of the Council. 



The total balance at the close of the session amounted to 

 ;^369. los. 5d., and the amounts standing at the credit of the 

 separate accounts, on the 31st March, 1904, are the following : — 



At the credit of General Fund ;^97 13 i 



„ „ Wilde Endowment Fund... 181 4 8 



„ „ Joule Memorial Fund 57 2 o 



„ „ Dalton Tomb Fund 33 10 8 



Cash in hand 31st March, 1904 ;£369 10 5 



The Wilde Endowment Fund, which is kept as a separate 

 banking account, shows a balance of ^181. 4s. 8d. in its 

 favour, as against ^12'j. 17s. id., at the beginning of the 

 financial year. The receipts from the invested funds are 

 slightly more than last year, and your Council sees no reason to 

 make any change in its investments. 



It will be observed that the long-continuing adverse balance 

 of the Natural History Fund has been eliminated in this 

 year's annual statement of accounts, by not passing to its debit, 

 as usual, the current payments made during the session for 

 Natural History publications, viz., ;^43. los. od., and Natural 

 History plates, ;£g. 1 2s. 6d. Of these amounts only ^1 3. i is. 4d, 

 has been charged to this account, and the balance, ;^39. i is. 2d. 

 appears in the general account of the Society. 



No expenditure has been incurred in respect to the Joule 

 Memorial Fund and the Dalton Tomb Fund, the balances of 

 which remain at the amounts stated above. The Dalton Tomb 

 Fund stands as a separate account at the Manchester and Salford 

 Savings Bank. 



The Librarian reports that during the session 610 volumes 

 have been stamped, catalogued and pressmarked, 580 of these 

 being serials, and 30 separate works. There have been written 

 204 catalogue cards, 142 for serials, and 62 for separate works. 

 The total number of volumes catalogued to date is 27,539 

 for which 9,127 cards have been written. 



