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REPORT OP THE 
ley’s recently published work on The Vegetable Kingdom/^ 
the Society possesses representatives of no less than 200. The 
Sub-Curator has been enabled by his extensive correspondence 
to effect many valuable exchanges with the Curators of the 
Royal Gardens at Kew, the Royal Botanical Society’s Gardens 
in the Regent’s Park, and the Botanical Garden at Hull, as well 
as with several private individuals. 
The Council regret to have again to report the want of success 
which attended the Horticultural Exhibition, held in the 
Society’s Gardens in June last, arising from no want of zeal 
or efficient management on the part of the Committee, but from 
an unfortunate concurrence of circumstances over which they 
had no controul. 
For a statement of the Society’s finances, the Council refer 
the Meeting to the balance-sheet which accompanies this report. 
They have much pleasure in congratulating the Society upon 
the increasing interest taken by the public in the Museum 
and Gardens, as evinced by the sum received at the gate for 
the admission of strangers, amounting during the year to £l74. 
In addition to this the public have, as customary, been admitted 
gratuitously on Whit-Monday and Tuesday. Another important 
item in the receipts is the money received at the Swimming 
Bath. The unusual heat of the summer may in part account 
for the large increase in this branch of the Society’s income, 
which, after deducting all expenses incident thereto, leaves a 
balance in favour of the Society of £112. 10s. lOd. 
The Council have been called upon to repay to the Executors 
of the late William Gray, Esq., the sum of £1000. lent to the 
Society some years since by that gentleman; and a further sum 
of £379. has been required for the purchase of Mr. Hargrove’s 
Collection of Antiquities, as awarded by reference to competent 
arbitrators. In the present state of its finances, the regular 
income of the Society is fully adequate to defray all the ordinary 
expenses which it can be called upon to bear,—^but it must be 
recollected that little can be done in the furtherance of those 
scientific objects for which the Society was originally established, 
without the revival of that general interest -which the origin of 
