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The Council have to state that the future arrangements 
connected with the residence will be carried out with a due 
regard to economy, and they believe that the extra expense 
incurred will be more than counterbalanced by the accommo- 
dation afforded. Some valuable donations have already been 
made to the library and museum by your President, Professor 
Morton, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Field, Mr. Ernes, Professor 
Simonds, and Mr. Gabriel ; and it is hoped and trusted that the 
nucleus thus prepared will be augmented by the kind contri- 
butions of very many members of the profession. In the 
catalogues of the library and the museum will be registered the 
donors to either department. 
The permanent Finance Committee has this year been 
appointed, consisting of Professors Simonds and Morton, 
and Messrs. Ernes and Braby, and the value of their services 
will be seen in the following report : 
66 In consequence of a complaint having been made to the 
Council that the accounts of the College are very erroneously 
kept, your Committee have examined the said accounts from 
their commencement in March, 1844, to April, 18.53, inclusive, 
and have to report in explanation of the discrepancies existing 
in the printed balance-sheets annually laid before the General 
Meeting of the Profession, that such printed sheets do not 
correctly show the state of the funds of the College. The 
Committee, however, have ascertained that the College ac- 
counts, as shown by the cash-book, have been most accurately 
kept, and the balance therein set forth agrees with the last 
audit, as appears by the annexed general balance-sheet. 
“ With respect to the errors adverted to by Mr. Cherry, in 
a letter addressed by him to the Council, the Committee find 
that the first item of £b Is. 6d. is accounted for, by its ap- 
pearing in the cash-book in the expenditure for the year 1846, 
being omitted in th e printed sheet. The second item of sub- 
scriptions, amounting to the sum of £24 2 s., in June, 1846, 
and said not to be accounted for, is included in the subscrip- 
tion list of £44 Is., received during the whole year. The 
third item of £32 19s., in 1848, is as readily explained as the 
antecedent ones. On the expenditure side of the printed 
report £4 are omitted, and on the receipt side £2 1 Is., making 
a difference of £l 9s., which sum, added to £31 JOs. entered 
as cash for six admission fees, but which did not then come into 
the funds of the College , will make a difference of £32 19s., 
being the discrepancy complained of. 
“ Your Committee are gratified to be enabled thus satis- 
factorily to complete their investigation, and have only further 
to suggest that, to facilitate the auditing the accounts, they 
