Annual Report of the Council. 103 



The amount of subscriptions from members shows a 

 gratifying increase; but, as explained in last year's report, 

 the arrears were then much larger than usual, so that this 

 year's receipts benefit from the circumstance. During the 

 last twenty years the number of members in arrear with 

 their subscriptions, on each 31st March, has been gradually 

 increasing, and it is very desirable that members should 

 take the earliest opportunity of forwarding their subscrip- 

 tions in response to the notice that they are due. The 

 sum of £24. 3s. has been transferred from the Wilde En- 

 dowment Fund, to meet the charges for the abolition of 

 entrance fees, and for the payment, in whole or in part, of 

 the subscriptions of members coming under the provisions 

 of the trust. 



The Compounders' Fund has been increased by another 

 composition, thus making the amount at its credit £230. 

 It might be well for the new Council to consider what 

 arrangements can be made for dealing with this account, 

 by funding the principal in whole or in part, and by 

 transferring therefrom an annual amount towards current 

 expenses, no provisions having hitherto been made in these 

 respects by former Councils. It has so far been maintained 

 as a book account, and no transfers have ever been made 

 from it to the general funds. The number of living com- 

 pounders is now six. 



The Sectional Subscriptions are larger than usual, as 

 they include two years' contributions from one of the 

 sections. The Physical and Mathematical Section con- 

 tributes £2. 2s., and the Natural History Section £5. 5s. 

 annually. 



The total receipts from the use of the Society's Rooms 

 are increased by the transfer of £50 from the Wilde 

 Endowment Fund under the provisions of the trust. In 

 accordance with its terms, limiting this source of income, 

 two of the societies which had been using the premises in 



