HOariCULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



219 



May 1, 1841. 



• ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



On this occasion the following Gentlemen were elected Officers 

 for the ensuing year : 



The Duke of Devonshire, President. 

 Thomas Edgar, Esq., Treasurer. 

 Alexander Henderson, M. D., Secretary. 



The following Fellows of the Society were also elected into 

 the Council for the ensuing year 



Edward Barnard, Esq. 

 Sir Oswald Moslev, Bart. 

 W. H. Pepys, Esq. 



in the room of 



Sir Philip Egerton, Bart. 

 Thomas Harris, Esq. and 

 W. H. F. Talbot, Esq. 



who went out by rotation. 



The Report upon the state of the Society's accounts for the 

 year ending May 1st, 1841, was then read : 



Report of the Auditors. 



The Auditors have examined the Accounts for the past year 

 and investigated the general financial atfairs of the Society, in 

 which duty they have been assisted by the officers, by whom 

 every information called for has been readily afforded. 



The result of such enquiry into the income and expenditure 

 will appear by the abstract subjoined, and the Auditors have the 

 satisfaction to state that the receipts have exceeded the expendi- 

 ture under the usual and ordinary heads, by the sum of £1578. 

 I6s. Id.; but jb'^yio. Is. "id., having been expended in com- 

 pleting the Conservatory, — Hot-water Apparatus, — building new 

 sheds, &c. at the Garden, and in repairs and improvements in 

 Regent Street, — and a farther sum of £\hO. having been allowed 

 as a compromise with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests 

 for a claim for arrears of rent of the House in Regent Street 

 previous to May IS'26, such extraordinary expenditure of 



