236 



The Disbursements of the Society may be classed under two heads : 



1. Those which are ordinary ; and 



2. Those which are extraordinary, and not likely to recur. 

 The ordinary disbursements may be estimated in the following manner : 



Salaries £ 645 



Lighting SO 



Coals 40 



Taxes 50 



Charwoman and Servant 42 



Postage 30 



Fire Insurance 22 



Miscellaneous 200 



£1109 



The annual expense of printing the Philosophical Transactions has 

 been, on an average of the last five years, £894, (without including 

 the charges for stitching and for advertisements,) viz. 



For Printing £350 



For Paper 259 



For Engraving 285 



£894 



These expenses attending their publication vary, of course, very much, 

 according to the number of pages, the quantity of engravings, and 

 the nature of the Papers, included in each volume. 



Besides these ordinary disbursements, there is at present the ex- 

 pense of the Catalogue, winch will probably cost the Society not less 

 than £1000, including the expense of printing ; and, for the present 

 year, the cost of the Fluid-Lens Telescope (£157 10s,), and print- 

 ing the Abstracts (£583 6s. 9d.) } against the latter of which sum 

 £141 18s. 6d. has been already received. 



The Income of the Society is derived from 



Rents £ 284 



Dividends on Stock 501 



Quarterly and Weekly Contributions, about 270 

 Sale of Philosophical Transactions, about . . 350 



£ 1405 



also whatever may be received from the Admission Fees or Com- 

 positions of new Members, which is fluctuating. The Admissions 

 have been, on an average of the last five years, twenty-six, which 

 would give of course £260 per annum for Admission Fees of £10 

 each ; and the average number of Members who have compounded 

 for Annual Contributions, during the same period, being twenty-one, 

 the amount of Compositions at £40 each would be £840, — making a 

 mean total of £1100 per annum for Admission Fees and Composi- 

 tions. But it being now optional for Members to compound or not 

 for Annual Payments, the Compositions (of which there have been 

 only seven during the past year,) will most probably go on consider- 



