318 EEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE. 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



OF 



NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TYNE. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 30th AUGUST, 1893. 



REPORT POR 1892-1893. 



In presenting the Annual Report to the members of the Natural 

 History Society, the Committee have in the first place to men- 

 tion that the total receipts from subscriptions, fees, and other 

 sources for the past year amount to £696 : 19 : 7, and the total 

 expenditure has been £779 : 8 : 4. The excess of expendi- 

 ture over income has been met in this and the previous year 

 (1891-2) by the reduction of the substantial balance of 1891 

 from £258 : 7 : 6 to £57 : 3 : 1, the balance on hand at the 

 end of the present financial year. The increase of expenditure 

 during the last and previous year has arisen chiefly from the 

 repairs done to the Museum building, painting the outside, and 

 furnishing the Upper East Corridor and the gallery of the Bird 

 Room with new cases, and partly from the expense of the electric 

 lighting of the Museum on Saturday evenings. 



Though the strictest care in outlay has been exercised, this 

 statement shews the necessity for the continuance of the same 

 rigid economy, and for renewed exertions on the part of the 

 officers and members in their endeavours to increase the list of 

 subscribers. During the year only nine new members have been 

 elected, and the Society has lost by death and resignations about 

 the same number, so that the total membership remains about 

 the siime as last year. 



