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the statement of the property belonging to the Society. But it may 

 be the subject of consideration whether such accounts ought not, 

 in future, to be kept totally distinct and separate. At the last 

 anniversary there was a balance of £356. 5s. lOd. arising from the 

 sale of MSS. to the British Museum, which, together with the 

 balances on the Rumford and Donation funds, were then (and are 

 now) included in the general assets of the Society ; but which must 

 be specially appropriated to particular purposes, and not to the ge- 

 neral expenditure of the Society. 



