-i-^v^ THE BOOK OF THE EOYAl"~M^ 



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1810, seventeen; and in 1811 only eleven. The records of 

 the four succeeding years present the following facts ; — 



Balance in favour of the Elections during 



Society at Anniversary. tile year, 



1812 ^ 9 18 . . . 17 



1813 168 5 1 .... 19 



1814 57 7 5 .... 26 



1815 258 16 6 . . . . 27 



In the year 1816 (March 5) the first bye-laws were passed, 

 and the afiairs of the Society reduced to better order than 

 seems previously to have existed. The Transactions were issued 

 as rapidly as funds could be procured, the official management 

 of the Corporation was assimilated to that of a pubhc ofiice, 

 and annual balance-sheets began to be issued. On the first of 

 May of that year the Society had 1000/. in the 3 per cents. ; 

 its income was .903/., its expenditure 717/., and there was an 

 outstanding balance in its favour of above 500/., exclusive of 

 186/. at the banker's. By May, 1818, the prosperity of the 

 Society had much increased. Its income was 1791/., its expen- 

 diture 1719/., its funded property was 1400/., and its floating 

 property, beyond its debts, was estimated at above 3000/. 

 additional. The number of elections had been fifty-nme in 

 1816, seventy-three in 1817, and the same number in 1818. 



This prosperous state of afi'airs led to the establishment of 

 an Experimental Garden at Kensington in the end of 1818, 

 and of an auxiliary nursery or hospital garden at Ealing ; and 

 in the year 1820 to the purchase at a cost of 4200/. of the 

 house No. 21, Eegent Street, where for forty years thereafter the 

 business of the Society was conducted. The annual subscription, 

 which had before been 2/. 2s., was about this time raised to 31. 3s. 



