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and for the bookcase in the Natural History room, taken 

 over from the Manchester Architects' Society when they 

 vacated the premises. Towards the cost of this new 

 Library accommodation, &c, your Council has authorised 

 the transfer of £100 from the Natural History Fund 

 (which leaves that Fund overdrawn to the extent of 

 £61. 12s. 4d.) 5 and of £80 from the Wilde Endowment 

 Fund. 



In Administrative Charges a new item appears for the 

 salary of an Assistant Secretary and Librarian, an appoint- 

 ment made under the terms of the Wilde Endowment. 

 Your Council appointed to this office, in July last, Mr. 

 Charles Leigh, who had had nine years' experience in the 

 library of the British Museum (Natural History) in South 

 Kensington ; he is discharging the duties of his office with 

 intelligence and with zeal. 



In the charges for Publishing a considerable increase 

 is apparent, due to the two previous sessions' printing 

 accounts not having been paid in time to be included in the 

 balance-sheets of last session. All invoices for printing 

 the "Memoirs" up to the completion of Volume IX. have 

 been discharged, and their amount is included in this 

 account. The invoices for the current Volume X., as far 

 as printed, were not rendered in time to be paid in the 

 present financial year. The cost of printing and illus- 

 trating the Natural History papers this session has again 

 been charged to the Natural History Fund. 



Nearly all the charges for sustaining the Library 

 (except for Natural History works) which appear in the 

 present account, say £42. 19s. nd., out of a total of 

 £49. is. 1 id., have been defrayed by a transfer from the 

 Wilde Endowment Fund. 



In order to show the complete expenditure of the 

 Wilde Endowment Fund, a list is given of the items 

 making up the total outlay of £314. 6s. 8d. Many of 



