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Such was briefly the position of affairs at the end of 1H87 „), ,u ' 
newly constituted Council and Officers undertnl I ^" 
task of rescuing the old Society a^d ,^ . ^^• ^^PP'''■'"'"^ 
and purely Ho^^ural ba^' And ha iS'S ''^ 
CO.. depend ^^J, J-—- fttcT;:. ^'^^ 
^^^Bearing in ™i„d, then, the three chief dfflcuUies in the Council's 
(1) A debt of £1,152 • 
exceeding the number of subscribing Fellows '"^ 
years that have passed away since then i ^ 
Year 
Annual | 
fixpeudi- j Increase or 
ture , Decrease of In^^ouie 
(Expenditure 
1887 
3,577 
188S 
3,412 
1889 
3,960 
1890 
3,866 
1891 
4,182 
1892 
4,872 
1893 
5,193 
1894 
5,076 
1895 
5,073 
1896 
5,788 
1897 
5,481 
1898 
5,810 
1899 
6,069 
1900 
6,553 
1901 
£ 
2,894 
-165 
3,617 
+ 548 
3,520 
-94 
4,102 
+ 316 
4,439 
+ ()90 
4,873 
+ 321 
5,591 
-117 
5,550 
5,638 
-3 
+ 715 
5,944 
-307 
6,303 
+ 329 
7,104 
+ 259 
7,820 
+ 484 
8,193 
Annual 
Increase or 
Decrease of 
Income 
+ 723 
-97 
+ 582 
+ 337 
+ 434 
+ 718 
-41 
+ 88 
+ 306 
+ 359 
+ 801 
+ 716 
+ 373 
Investments 
Annual 
Increase of 
Investments 
-1,152 
479 
479 
+ 479 
975 
1,768 
2,325 
2,325 
+ 496 
+ 793 
+ 557 
3,691 
6,154 1 
8,156 , 
10,237 
+ 1,366 
+ 2,463 
+ 2,002 
+ 2,081 
Year 
1887 
1888 
1889 
1890 
1891 
1892 
1893 
1894 
1895 
1896 
1897 
1898 
1899 
1900 
1901 
Istme;fsT„"thT;\aw7a,^fe\"ra^^^ '° "o* included i„ the 
mcial position. """^ ^^"^ "° bearing on the fluctuations of the Sodety" 
The increase in the number of Fellowq thp,.. h u 
since 1887, in which year it was 235 ?u "° ''^'''•''^''^ 
the early part of 1888 wa Tore than baZe^l ''"T"''"'' 
Fellows later in the same year the nn , o^' "ew 
in the above table, bemuse i7wo„n " '"c'-^<3«'i 
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