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THE TREASURER’S REPORT: 
ID I ION IN IN INIT 
In submitting to the General Meeting my statement of Cash 
Accounts for 1881, I am glad to state that the Receipts amounted 
to $1,759.21, and the Expenditure to $961.56, shewing a balance of 
$797.65 in my hands. j 
On the 31st December, 1881, the outstanding subscriptions were 
as follows :— 
For 1879, ae a % 42.00 
1880, a oe 48.00 
1881, ae oe 120.00 
Total,...$210.00 
Since then, a sum of $24 has been received to account of the 
subscriptions for 1879, 1880 and 1881, and there has been a sale 
of 14 numbers of the Journal, amounting to $28. There were bills 
for 1881, outstanding at the end of the year, amounting to $59.46, 
which have since been paid. Out of the $59.46, a sum of $48.83 
was paid for two packages of paper which will be used for the 
No. 8 Journal of the Society. There is now in the hands of 
the Treasurer $790.19, which, with the outstanding subscriptions 
for 1879, 1880 and 1881, shew a balance to the credit of the Society 
of $976.19. In addition to this balance, there is a sum in the hands 
of our Agents in London and Paris, which cannot now be accurately 
stated. } 
I regret to state that several Members have been lost to the 
Society by death and retirement since the last Annual General 
Meeting, and that the new admissions have not been proportion- 
ately numerous. Four Ordinary Members have been lost by death, 
and seventeen Members haye retired, whilst no more then one 
