8 
REPORT OF THE 
The amount received for the admission of New Members is 
less than in former years. This is principally to be ascribed to 
the cessation in 1859 of the instalments paid by numerous 
Members elected in 1857. The other items require no comment, 
with the exception of the Money taken at the Gates. Notwith¬ 
standing the unfavourable state of the weather, the ordinary 
receipts for admission produced more in 1860 than in any 
previous year, amounting in all to £207 11s. 9d.; but from the 
storms which prevailed on Whit Monday and Tuesday the 
number of Visitors to the Museum and Grounds was so small 
that the net amount received on those days was only £2 10s. lid., 
against nearly £12 in 1859. This causes the total sum entered 
as money received at the Gates to he rather more than £4 less 
than that appearing under the same head in the last Account. 
It appears to the Council that the steady increase which has 
taken place for the last few years in the amounts received at 
the Gates, is a most satisfactory element in the prosperity of 
the Society, not only on financial considerations, but also as 
indicating the interest taken by the public in the objects and 
efforts of the Society. The deficiencies in the ordinary income, 
just alluded to, are, in part, made up by the amount of £45 
received from two compounding Members, and by an additional 
sum of £12 obtained for the hire of the Tent. 
The expenditure of the year calls for hut few remarks. It 
includes no extraordinary expenses, such as swelled the expen¬ 
diture of 1859 to so great an amount, and is rather below than 
above the average of the last few years. It leaves a surplus 
of income of £143 2s. 6d., which added to the balance of 
£13 2s. lOd. brought from 1859, leaves a sum of £156 5s. 4d. 
in the Treasurer’s hands. 
Before quitting the subject of the finances of the Society, the 
Council have, however, to advert to another account, which 
unfortunately, does not, by any means, exhibit so satisfactory a 
result. After the statement reorardino^ the Museum Enlar^'ement 
Fund, and the Society’s liabilities on account of it, laid before 
the Members in the Council’s last Beport, considerable efforts 
were made, especially by Mr W. H. Rudston Bead, one of the 
Vice-Presidents of the Society, and the Honorary Secretary, 
