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REPORT OF THE 
large sum of upwards of £2,100 ; wdiilst the present debt does 
not reach two-thirds of that sum. 
This debt, £1,378 5s. 9d., would have been reduced con¬ 
siderably during the present year but for the expenditure for new 
cases and alterations required for the display of Mr. W. Heed’s 
munificent donation, amounting in the whole to £667 14s. 9d., 
of whicli large sum £150 only can be charged as ordinary 
expenditure. 
During the four years referred to the following expenditime 
was incurred :— 
In 1877-8 the New Hoof to the Museum' 
and the lar^-e room in which the Ethno- - 
logical Museum is displayed cost 
In 1878 the Alterations in the Gieological j 
Hoorn cost the further sum of . . . .) 
The Inclosrue of the Acre of New Grround | 
added to the Grardens.) 
The purchase of Antiquities. 
If to these items be added the debt on 
the Lodge Account .) 
And the extraordinary expenditure 
of the present year, for cases and 
alterations for the Geological Museum, 
£667. 14. 9 
Less 150. 0. 0 
The Total amount of extraordinary 
expenditure for the above period will be £2,147. 6. 7 
When the members are further reminded that these items 
of expenditure have been incurred for improvements and 
additions to the real estate of the Society, and the collections 
in the Museum, which have increased the value of the Society’s 
property far bejmnd the sum named, the Council cannot but 
believe that the balance sheet, when further treated of at the 
close of this Heport, will be found highly satisfactory. 
It may be stated before this part of the Heport is closed 
that the wave of agricultural and commercial depression, which 
seems to have pervaded the whole of Europe, has had a material 
£ s. d. 
413. 2. 5 
198. 2. 9 
263. 11. 10 
104. 12. 7 
650. 2. 3 
517. 14. 9 
