COUNCIL FOR 1861 . 
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book cases to be made at a cost of £2T. This addition will 
facilitate the rearrangement of the Library, and the present 
cases will then probably suihce for several years to come. 
The last item of Expenditure to which the Council think it 
necessary to refer particularly, is the purchase of a Collection of 
Fossils from Mr. John Bainbridge. This Collection, which had 
been brought together with great pains by its owner, included 
many fine Specimens from the Yorkshire Strata, besides several 
highly interesting Fossils from other localities. It was offered 
to the Council at the price of £55, at which sum it was 
understood it would be taken by another purchaser; and as 
Mr. Procter, the Curator of Geology, and Mr. Wm. Peed, both 
declared that it was exceedingly desirable to secure many of 
the Specimens for the Museum, and considered the price asked 
to be a moderate one, the Council lost no time in accepting Mr. 
Bainbridge’s ofier. Mr. Dallas, under the direction of Mr. 
Procter and Mr. Peed, has since carefully examined the Col¬ 
lection, and those Specimens have been selected which it is 
thought necessary to retain for the Museum; the remainder, 
valued at about £18, will be sold as soon as an opportunity 
occurs; consequently, the Specimens purchased will probably 
cost the Society about £40. 
Had it not been for the special Expenditure just referred to, 
amounting altogether to £S22, the Society’s Account would have 
shown a surplus of Income of about £65, instead of a deficiency 
of £156 11s. 8d., the result of the Account for 1861 being a 
balance of 6s. 4d. against the Society, independent of the 
balance due in respect of the Museum Enlargement Fund, 
transferred to the General Account of the Society in pursuance 
of a Pesolution passed at the last Annual Meeting. 
Owing to the non-payment of some promised Contributions to 
the Enlargement Fund, and to the charge for interest, &c., 
made by the Bankers, the amount transferred to the debit of 
the Society’s Account was rather larger than the estimated 
balance stated in the Peport for 1860, being £404 9s. 9d., 
instead of £384 Is. 9d. This sum added to the above amount 
of 6s. 4d., increases the final balance against the Society on the 
31st December, 1861, to £404 16s. Id. It is, of course, im- 
