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Income. 

 Contributions, 

 Government Grant at 300 

 Sale of Books, 

 Journal, 

 Interest, 

 Miscellaneous, 



8,000 



3,600 



1,000 



800 



120 



10 



The marginal estimate of the probable income and expenditure of 



the next year will be found to fall 

 short of that of previous years, sim- 

 ply because the amount of the 

 Government Grant for the Museum 

 of Economic Geology has ceased to 

 be borne in the accounts, in conse- 

 quence of the removal of that es- 

 tablishment, and the cessation of 

 the allowance from September last. 



The subject of reducing the rate 

 of subscription to the Society from 

 Ks. 16 to 10 per quarter was 

 brought forward for final discussion 



Monthly average . . 



Expenditure. 

 Zoological Museum, 

 Library— Estabt. 936 

 Bookbinding, 

 Purchase of 



books, 

 Contingencies, 



13,530 

 . 1,127 8 



4,200 



300 



650 

 114 



Estabt. General, 



Journal, 



Miscellaneous, including 



Building, 

 Peposit, 



2,000 



1,800 an d decision in September last. 

 2,700 . . 



The proposition was orginally 



1 » 2 ^ ° moved by Major Thuillier in Nov. 



1855. The Council after careful 



11,972 



deliberation reported against the 

 Monthly average, .. 997 10 8 expediency of the proposed change, 



and the question having been refer- 

 red to the Society at large, and the votes of absent members solicited 

 under bye-law 45, the motion was negatived at a special meeting, 

 held in September last, the number of suffrages obtained in favour 

 of the motion being 25, whilst 23 were given against it. 



Library, Considerable improvement has been effected in the 

 preservation and arrangement of the books. Much, however, yet re- 

 mains to be done in the way of enriching the contents of the Library. 

 Nearly 250 vols, have been added during the year, a considerable 

 portion of which are donations from authors and learned societies. 

 The leading Scientific periodicals of Europe, obtained either by pur- 

 chase or exchange, are from time to time laid on the table of the new 

 reading-room for perusal. 



A new catalogue of the Library has been published, copies of which 

 may be had by members free of charge by application to the 

 Librarian. The price to non-subscribers has ben fixed at 3 Eupees 

 a copy. 



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