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ANNUAL REPOET. 



11. Special Fund. 



It was mentioned in the last Annual Report that a Special 

 Fund had been inaugurated by the Council at their Meeting 

 on December 9th, 1913, with the purpose of placing the finances 

 of the Institute upon a more satisfactory basis, and of making 

 provision for larger audiences than could then be suitably 

 accommodated in its rooms. A prompt response was made to 

 this Appeal, and the amount received up to December 31st, 

 1913, was £52 16s. 3d. During the past year further sub- 

 scriptions, amounting in all to £43 12s. Od., have been received, 

 making a total of £96 8s. 3d. The subscriptions received 

 during the past year are given in detail below : — 



Lt.-Colonel M. A. Alves, £2 ; Miss E. M. Baumer, 10s. ; the Eev. C. H. 

 Barlow, 5s. ; Colonel A. W. C. Bell, 10s. ; E. A. Bowles, Esq., £l Is. ; 

 Colonel W. W. Baker, £1 ; Mrs. Barbour, 10s. ; Rev. H. A. Crosbie, 10s.; 

 H. J. H. de Vismes, Esq., 5s. ; the Rev. Prebendary Fox, £5 ; Archibald 

 Greenlees, Esq., £1 Is. ; General J. G. Halliday, £5 ; Mrs. C. S. Hogg, £1 Is. ; 

 Prof. E. Hull, LL.D., 10s. ; Colonel Sir Swinton Jacob, £2 ; Miss M. A. 

 Laurence, £1 ; Miss Longdon, 10s. ; Williamson Lamplough, Esq., £2 2s.; 

 Colonel G. Mackinlay, £1 Is. ; Captain M. McNeile, R.N., £1 Is. ; John 

 H. Nelson, Esq., £5 ; Miss S. M. Nugent, 10s. 6d. ; O. T. Olsen, Esq., Ph.D., 

 D.Sc, £1 Is. ; Dr. W. H. Plaister, £1 Is. ; E. Walter Perkins, Esq., 7s. ; 

 Dr. T. G. Pinches, £l Is. ; Henry P. Eudd, Esq., £2 ; Henry Sandford, 

 Esq., 10s. 6d. ; E. J. Sewell, Esq., £l Is. ; Captain Hon. H. N. Shore, £l ; 

 J. P. Stilwell, Esq., J.P., £1 Is. ; W. Duncan White, Esq., £l Is. ; Henry 

 Wilson, Esq., £1 Is. 



While gratefully acknowledging the generosity of those who 

 have thus contributed to the Special Fund, the Council regret 

 that the total amount received is only one-third of that for 

 which they had ventured to ask. It has sufficed indeed to 

 meet the expenses connected with the removal, and of the hire 

 of special rooms for many of the Meetings during the past 

 year, but it does not provide the means for placing the capital 

 account of the Institute in the position which it held a few 

 years ago. The Council hope, therefore, that the friends of the 

 Institute will not relax their efforts, nor consider the sub- 

 scription list closed ; but that the Special Fund will continue 

 to receive support. They would also invite those Associates 

 who can afford to do so to become full Members, that the losses 

 which it is to be feared will follow upon the War may be 

 made good, and an assured prospect provided that in future 

 the ordinary income will prove sufficient to meet the ordinary 

 expenditure. 



