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REPORT OF 
be paid in the commencement of the year, when they become 
due; for whatever money is paid into the Bank on the 
Society’s account, before it is required to be drawn out, is 
balanced against the debt. 
Thus far the Council have exercised a discretion, which 
they hope will meet with the approval of the Meeting, for 
the important purpose of enabling the Curators of the various 
collections to arrange the valuable and multiplied donations 
which they annually receive ; but they do not propose to go 
further in increasing the debt even for this object. To com¬ 
plete the establishment in a satisfactory manner, an additional 
expenditure, estimated at <F400, is still wanted to fit up in a 
permanent manner the principal room, which contains the 
specimens in Zoology and Ornithology, and in which a gallery 
will be required. But the Council is compelled to recommend 
that the deficiency in that part of the arrangements of the 
Museum should be submitted to, till the public liberality 
shall furnish the means of supplying it. In the mean time 
contributions which members or others may be induced to 
subscribe towards this specific object, will be allowed to accu¬ 
mulate till they shall be sufficient to effect it. 
Were it practicable to raise a subscription of i?2000, that 
sum would at once finish the Museum and pay off the debt; 
and the Society would thus be left in possession of a clear 
income sufficient to remunerate fully the services of the men 
of science professionally attached to it, and to carry on the 
extensive and important objects which are unfolding themselves 
before it, with an efficacy which would do honour to all who 
should be concerned in conducting or promoting them. For 
such purposes it might not be difficult perhaps in this county 
to raise such a subscription. For the present, however, it 
appears advisable that the plan proposed in the last Report 
should be adhered to, and that a gradual reduction of the debt 
