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July 1885, to 30th June, 1886, at a remuneration of £70. 
The transfer of the Society's library to the new cases, and 
the general supervision of the workmen employed in the 
decoration and re-furnishing of the rooms required the 
constant presence of an official acting under the authority 
of the Council. Towards the expense thus incurred, two 
members of the Council were generous enough to promise 
donations of £60, viz.: Mr. Henry Wilde £50, and Mr. R 
D. Harbishire £10. Mr. Wilde’s donation was paid to the 
credit of the Centenary Fund, and its transfer to Adminis- 
trative Charges appears in the balance sheet for the session 
just closed. It will remain for the new Council to de- 
termine whether the experiment of employing a Curator 
shall be continued. 
In the Puhlishivg Account of the Society, though the 
fluctuations from year to year are great, it is satisfactory to 
report that the expenditure upon this primary object of the 
Society’s work has not been seriously interfered with, as, 
including the Centenary volume, and the amount of £oS 
due for printing during the last session, the expenditure 
under this head has been £143 annually. This account has 
been relieved from time to time by appropriations from the 
Natural History fund, in aid of the illustration of natural 
history papers, published in the Society’s Memoirs. The 
annual expenditure of £143 for the Society’s publications 
is therefore increased by the amount charged to the natural 
history fund which, in the session now closed, reached £27. 
With a view to reduce the expense of the double publica- 
tion of papers in the “ Proceedings ” and in the “ Memoirs,” 
the Council has under consideration such changes as may 
be deemed advisable in our present method of publishing. 
It is on the Library that your Treasurer regrets to report 
that the necessary economy of the Society’s resources has 
fallen with the greatest severity. During the first septennial 
period under review £784 was expended upon new books 
