COUNCIL FOR 1853 . 
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expenditure of the year ■will be found to have been £110 13s. 9d. 
The Swimming Bath receipts have not this year equalled their 
usual amount; but with this exception the receipts at the 
gates, from new members, and from almost every other source 
of income, are greater than in 1852. Thus the total income 
exceeds the total expenditure of the year by £145 5s. 8d., which 
has enabled the Society to pay off a balance of £89 2s. 7d., 
due to their Bankers on the 1st January, 1853, and has left 
a sum of £56 3s. Id., to the Society’s credit on the 1st January, 
1854. 
During the past year the Council have to lament the death of 
Richard John Thompson, Esq., of Kirby Hall, one of the 
Trustees of the Society, in whom the Society have lost a liberal 
friend and patron ; Mr. Thompson kindly cancelling the debt 
of £50 due to him from the Society. 
After this review, whether the Council point to the rare 
acquisitions of the Society, in the Geological and Antiquarian 
departments, or to the instruction and gratification afforded to 
thousands during the Exhibition in August last, they trust they 
may fairly derive from the past year the strongest assurance that 
the peculiar objects of the Institution are becoming each year 
more and more appreciated, and that an increasing sympathy in 
those objects, thus awakened, may lead to the further prosperity 
of the Society, and extend its sphere of usefulness. 
