10 
REPORT OF THE 
part by the smaller amount of arrears recovered in 1861, and 
in part by the larger number of Subscriptions, especially 
amongst the County Members, still remaining unpaid. The 
amount received for the admission of new Members is £5 more 
than in 1860, and the sum paid for Keys of the Gates is also 
increased, as is likewise the amount received at the Swimming 
Baths, the latter being £98 15s. against £71 6s. 8d. in 1860. 
In the money received at the Gate for admission there is 
however a falling off, this being only £195 11s. 4d.; and the 
sums realised by the Sale of the Guide to the Antiquities, and 
for the hire of the Tent, are less than in former years. 
The Expenditure of the Society for ordinary purposes calls 
for no observations. It consists of the usual disbursements, 
and is of about the usual amount; nevertheless, the Total 
Expenditure of the year reaches the sum of £1857 10s. 5d., 
showing an excess over the Income of £156 11s. 8d., more than 
half this excess of Expenditure being caused by the purchase 
of a new Tent at a cost of £105, the old Tent belonging to the 
Society having become quite worn out, and been at last almost 
destroyed by a storm in the Autumn of 1860. The Council 
thought it highly desirable that the Society should still possess 
a Tent, both in order to enable Flower Shows and other 
Exhibitions to be held in the Grounds, and on account of the 
profit to be derived from its hire. The new Tent was lent out 
twice during the Autumn of 1861, producing £9, or nearly 9 
per cent, on its cost, and as it is far superior to the old one the 
Council hope that the purchase money may prove to have been 
profitably invested. 
Another extra expenditure, which will in course of time be 
repaid with interest, is the printing of a new edition of the 
Catalogue of Antiquities, for the preparation of which the 
thanks of the Society are due to the Curator, the Bev. John 
Kenrick. The constant and rapid sale of this Guide induced 
the Council to print an edition of 1,500 copies, at a cost of 
£85. The new edition was issued to the public on the 1st of 
July, and its sale up to the end of the year produced £6 7s. 
The Curator of the Library having stated that more accom¬ 
modation for Books was required, the Council ordered two new 
