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XEbe Selbovne Society’s fTbaciasfne. 
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No. 105. SEPTEMBER, 1898. Vol. IX. 
SELBORN IAN A. 
Financial Position ok the Society. — From the report of 
the Finance Committee on their examination, at the request of 
the Council, into the present grave condition of the Society’s 
finances it appears that, owing to the entirely inadequate income 
of former years, we are saddled with a heavy debt to our printers, 
although each year’s income is now nearly sufficient to meet our 
current expenditure. It is most desirable that our work should 
not be hampered by this incubus ; but that, instead of being thus 
crippled, we should be able to enlarge the scope of our efforts, 
as, for example, by the issue of leaflets. To place the Society’s 
finances on a really satisfactory basis about ^300 is required. 
To raise this sum three proposals were made by the Committee, 
first, an earnest endeavour on the part of all to get new members ; 
second, special donations to the Deficit Fund; and third, the 
increased contribution from the branches, which is to come 
shortly before a Special General Meeting for discussion. It is 
not necessary to raise the whole sum at once ; but if it could 
be got together within the next three years, the beneficial effect 
upon our utility as a Society cannot be doubted. 
Committees. — The lists of members of the Committees of the 
Society given on p. 1 24 were taken in error from an unrevised 
Report. They should have been as follows : — 
The President, Trustees, Vice-Presidents, Editor, Treasurer and Secretary, 
are (ex-officio) members of all Committees. 
Field Club. — Mrs. Percy Myles, Miss Edith J. Temple, Rev. H. E. U. Bull, 
Messrs. W. Carpenter, George H. Edwards, Edward A. Martin, G. B. Milne- 
Redhead, H. W. Ravenshavv, R. Marshman Wattson. Hon. Sec. — Mr. Ernest 
A. Nash. 
Finance. — Mrs. Percy Myles, Messrs. G. H. Edwards, A. Holte Macpherson, 
Edward A. Martin, II. W. Ravenshaw, and G. B. Milne-Redhead. 
Magazine and Leaflet. — Mrs. Percy Myles, Miss Edith J. Temple, Messr;. 
F. W. Ashley, George H. Edwards, Basil Martin, E. A. Nash, and G. B. Milne- 
Redhead. Hon. Sec. — Mr. Edward A. Martin. 
