8 
REPORT OP THE 
that the interior rafters and stone-work of the roof were in so 
damaged a condition as to require immediate repair. He 
advised that a new roof he built, and at a higher pitch, and 
that the two rooms containing the Ethnological collection be 
made continuous, whereby considerable space would be gained. 
The Council adopted the report, and the required work has 
been done, at a cost of £335 14s. 8d., a sum which includes 
not only the cost of the repairs, but all expenses incident to 
the repair and enlargement of the cases of the Ethnological 
collection, and in fitting them to the walls. Ey this alteration 
the Society have gained to their Museum a room 62 feet by 
18| feet mde, in which the collection can now be exhibited to 
the utmost advantage, without any break in its continuity, a 
point of great importance in a collection intended to trace the 
works of man from the Palseolithic age to a time comparatively 
recent. 
The Council now propose to add to the general account the 
Lodge account, hitherto kept separate. The balance which 
still exists on this account amounts to £650 2s. 3d., but as the 
last year’s account disclosed a balance in hand of £430 2s. 4d., 
the actual debt on the present year’s account as shewn in the 
Treasurer’s balance sheet, after deducting the deficit of £198 
10s. 7d. on the present year’s account, will be £418 10s. 6d. 
When the Members are reminded that this debt is the result 
of the alterations referred to, and of the extra-ordinary outlay 
which the Society incurred a few years ago in providing the 
present Lodge, which is so great an ornament to our grounds 
and to the quarter of the City in which it stands, they vill 
concm* with the Council, whilst regretting the existence of any 
debt on the annual balance sheet, that such debt was unavoid¬ 
able under the circumstances. 
There are also other items of expenditime which will be more 
particularly stated in the Treasurer’s Account to be annexed 
to the Eeport. A sum of upwards of £30 has been expended 
in a new boiler to the Grreenhouse, and £54 11s. 6d., and 
£15 6s. Od., have been respectively paid for objects of antiquity, 
and for asphalting the Walks of the Museum. The Marygate 
Tower has also been repamed at a cost of £39 2s. 4d. 
