185 



The following is the statement with respect to the Receipts and Pay 

 ments of the Society during the preceding year, which was laid on the 

 table by the Treasurer : — 



Statement of the Receipts and Payments of the Royal Society between 



Nov. 29, 1838, and Nov. 28, 1839. 

 Receipts : — £• s. d. 



Balance in the hands of the Treasurer at the last Audit . . 1463 14 5 



28 Weekly Contributions, at one shilling 72 16 



159 Quarterly Contributions, at £1 : — 



141 Annual Contributions at £4 564 



One Reinstated (Two Annual Payments) . . 8 

 Six elected before the last Anniversary .... 600 

 Two elected before March 2oth, 1839 .... 8 



Eight elected after March 25th, 1839 8 



594 



36 Admission Fees 360 



1 Composition for Annual Payment at £40 40 



10 Compositions for Annual Payments at £60 600 



Rents : — 



One year's rent of estate at Mablethorpe : due £. s. d. 

 at Michaelmas, (less the expenses of de- 

 fending the Tythe suit, £55. 13. 3) 51 6 9 



One year's rent of lands at Acton : due at 



Michaelmas, 1839 60 



One year's fee-farm rent of lands in Sussex ; 



land-tax deducted : dueatMichaelmas, 1839 19 4 



One fifth of the clear rent of an estate at Lam- 

 beth Hill, from the Royal College of Phy- 

 sicians, in pursuance of Lady Sadleir's will : 



due at Midsummer, 1839 3 



133 10 9 



Dividends on Stock : — 



One year's dividendon £14,000 Reduced 3 per 



cent. Annuities 420 



Dividend on £3452. 1. 1 Consols, the produce 

 of the sale of the premises in Coleman- 



street 103 11 2 



One year's dividend on £200 Consols .... 6 



Donation Fund. 

 One year's dividend on £4150. 0. Consols 124 10 



Rumford Fund. 

 One year's dividend on £2161 . 0. 10 Consols 64 16 6 

 One half year's dividend on £131. 10. 9. . . . 119 ^ 



Fairchild Fund. 

 One year's dividend on £100 New South Sea 



Annuities 3 



— 723 17 



Miscellaneous Receipts : — 



Sale of Philosophical Transactions, Abstracts 

 of Papers, and Catalogue of the Royal So- 

 ciety's Library 286 13 



Sale of Catalogue to Subscribers 75 



Total Receipts 



£4349 11 



