Report to the General Meeting. 
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The Finance Committee have laid before the Council the de- 
tailed balance-sheet of the Derby Meeting account, from which it 
appears that the receipts on account of that Meeting were 3390^., 
while the expenditure had been 5090/. 17s. Ic?., being an excess of 
expenditure over the receipts of 1700/. 17s. \d. chargeable on the 
funds of the Society. The Council trust that they will be enabled 
to prevent the recurrence of such a deficit at the ensuing country 
meeting. 
The Finance Committee have also laid before the Council the 
following statement of the arrears of subscription at the present 
time, in comparison with their amount at the last December 
meeting : — 
£. s. d. 
Amount of Arrears in December, 1842 3705 0 0 
Ditto of the same Arrears in December, 1843. . .1614 0 0 
Total amount of such Arrears paid or discharged) 2Qgj q q 
during the last twelve months J 
By the new regulation, all subscriptions of the present year, 
due in advance on the 1st of January last, became in arrear on 
the 1st of June ensuing; and agreeably with such rule, the 
amount of subscriptions in arrear for 1843 is only 1879/., a pro- 
portion of the year's subscriptions by no means great when it is 
taken into consideration that the fact of such new rule being in 
operation may not be known by the members generally who are 
thus in arrear. 
The Committee have laid before the Council the following 
Statement of the Members remaining on the list of the Society 
after the removal of such names as were referred to by the Council 
in their last Report to the General Meeting in May : — 
Life governors 94 
Governors 209 
Life members 429 
Members 6155 
Honorary members 15 
6902 
The Journal Committee have reported to the Council the adju- 
dication of the Society's gold medal, along with Mr. Slaney's 
