BALANCE SHEET FOR 1888. 



EXPENSES. 



Subscriptions 11 



17 



6 



Due last year to Trea- 





Portion of Mrs. Rum- 







surer 14 



H 



sey's donation di-awn 







Printing and. Postage 3 18 



sl 



from the Bank ... 10 











Museum Expenses ... 1 10 







Interest on ditto ... 1 



2 



8 



Hire of Room 15 



Conversazione 7 17 



Sundries 11 



Collector's Commis- 

 sion 11 



Caretaker (Museum) 12 



16 10 

 In hand ... . . ... 6 9 







2 



6 

 6 



6^ 



£23 2 



£23 2 



Also balance remaining from Mrs. Rumsey's donation of £10. 



The President then read the following : 



ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



Although there have been no great or startling discoveries since 

 I last addressed you, never perhaps have scientific workers been 

 more numerous and indefatigable. Indeed, in reviewing the 

 advance of science during the past year, we can find hardly any 

 branch in which considerable strides of progress have not been 

 made. Electricity maintains the first rank as one of the most 

 practical benefactors of mankind, and from its varied applications 

 is invaluable in the side light it throws on many other scientific 

 inventions, such as the Phonograph, the Graphophone, the new 

 telegraphy from trains in motion, electric fishing, and the produc- 

 tion of the valuable metal, aluminium. Sir Frederick Bramwell, 

 in his interesting address last Autumn at the British Association, 

 reminded his hearers that the object of that association was 

 primarily the advancement of science in its practical application 

 to the benefit of mankind, and he referred to those physical bless- 

 ings which science^at the hands of its votaries, has so beneficially 

 ghowered upon us. 



