778 - 
annual MEETING. 
He was aware that fears were entertained by many country members that the antici¬ 
pated change in the mode of publication would prove almost ruinous in a financial point 
of view, and he had therefore drawn up a tabular statement, showing the receipts and 
expenditure since the commencement, which was as follows:— 
Tabular View of the Cost of the Journal to the Society from its Commencement in 1841 
till December 18G9, being the date of the last Financial Statement. 
Date. 
Cost. 
Delivering. 
Total Cot 
it. 
Members, < 
£. s. d. 
£. s. 
d. 
£. 
s. 
d. 
1842. 
March 3 
1 300 0 0 
5 5 
0 
305 
5 
0 
1960. 
(This represents only part of a year.) 
1842. 
December 31 1050 0 0 
28 10 
3 
1078 
10 
o 
O 
3956. 
1843. 
Ditto 
1200 0 0 
93 1 
2 
1293 
1 
2 
3663. 
1844. 
Ditto 
1162 10 0 
84 12 
4 
1247 
2 
4 
3114. 
1845. 
Ditto 
900 0 0 
101 11 
O 
O 
1001 
11 
3 
3108. 
1846. 
Ditto 
797 10 0 
139 5 
8 
936 
15 
8 
2936. 
1847. 
Ditto 
675 0 0 
151 10 
0 
826 
10 
0 
2769. 
1848. 
Ditto 
675 0 0 
153 13 
10 
828 
13 
10 
2578. 
1849. 
Ditto 
675 0 0 
151 14 
0 
826 
14 
0 
2041. 
1850. 
Ditto 
615 0 0 
151 4 
0 
766 
4 
0 
2304. 
1851. 
Ditto 
561 3 9 
151 4 
0 
712 
7 
9 
2177. 
1852. 
Ditto 
573 2 6 
87 11 
8 
660 
14 
2 
2293. 
1853. 
Ditto 
722 16 3 
68 17 
0 
791 
13 
3 
3362. 
1854. 
Ditto 
944 7 6 
77 12 
0 
1021 
19 
6 
3068. 
1855. 
Ditto 
700 0 0 
121 9 
6 
821 
9 
6 
2851. 
(Sales of Journal this year, £4. Is.) 
1856. 
Ditto 
662 10 0 
181 12 
3 
844 
2 
o 
o 
2662. 
(Sales of Journal this year £4. 
14s. 6cZ.) 
1857. 
Ditto 
561 13 2 
184 12 
6 
746 
5 
8 
2504. 
(Sales of Journal thi: 
s year £1. 13s.) 
1858. 
Ditto 
712 2 11 
177 3 
6 
889 
6 
5 
2377. 
(Journals sold this 
year, £4. 4s.) 
1859. 
Ditto 
862 7 5 
171 19 
0 
1034 
6 
5 
2275. 
(Journals sold this year, £6. 18s.) 
1860. 
Ditto 
599 10 3 
599 
10 
o 
O 
2107. 
(This represents the first volume of the New Series.) 
1861. 
Ditto 
608 12 3 
608 
12 
3 
2014. 
1862. 
Ditto 
173 13 4 
173 
13 
4 
1942. 
1863. 
Ditto 
70 7 5 
70 
7 
5 
1940. 
1864. 
Ditto 
47 8 9 
47 
8 
9 
1987. 
Profit. 
1865. 
Ditto 
50 10 8 
2044. 
1866. 
Ditto 
218 5 5 
2108. 
1867. 
Ditto 
296 14 7 
2143. 
1868. 
Ditto 
332 4 7 
2196. 
1869. 
Ditto 
67 14 10 
3399. 
This amount of profit was more than absorbed by the expenses in preparing, printing, 
and publishing an index, comprehending twelve volumes of the Journal, and which cost 
in all <£99. 13s. 0>d. 
This showed that up to 1859, when Hr. Jacob Bell made over the Journal to the 
Society, there was an average expenditure of between £700 and £800 for journals and 
delivery. In 1860 this was reduced to £599. 10s. 3 cl., including postage, and in 1861, 
when the attention of the Council was drawn to the valuable nature of the property, 
owing to the steps taken in consequence, the balance against the Society was reduced 
to £173. 13s. 4 d. 1865 was the turning-point, when there was a small profit, though 
2044 members and associates were supplied with copies gratuitously, and it went on 
increasing up to 1868. In 1869 also, there was a much larger profit than appeared, a 
large amount having been swamped in producing the index. From the table it appeared 
that since the Journal had been officially connected w r ith the Society, no fewer than 
