10 
REPOllT OF THE 
of previous Annual Meetings, to a considerable extent; viz. 
for the purchase of Mr. Allis’s Collection £S50. ; for new 
Zoological Cases £236 .; for Hothouses, &c. <£*40. ; for re¬ 
pairs of the Roman Tower ; making in all about <£^640. 
To meet this great but necessary expenditure, the Trea¬ 
surer has received Subscriptions towards the purchase of ]\Ir. 
Allis’s Collection, to the extent of £22^. Ss. ^ ; from the Hor¬ 
ticultural Exhibition <^^94. ^s .; Admission and Composition 
from one member £25.; Admissions of twenty other members 
<n00. ; and a Donation of <=£^10. from Miss AVilloughby ; 
in all about ^456. The difference is about cC180.; but the 
debt of the Society, when some arrears shall have been col¬ 
lected, will not be found augmented by even one hundred 
pounds. 
The Ordinary Annual Income has in no respect fallen off, 
but on the contrary has been augmented by the addition of 
twenty-two New Members, more than doubling the loss by 
death and removal. The receipts from Ladies’ Annual Sub¬ 
scriptions, from payments for keys of the Gardens, and 
Strangers’ Tickets of Admission, have been nearly as in pre¬ 
ceding year. 
No pecuniary loss, therefore, has resulted to the Society 
from opening the Museum and Gardens, during certain days, 
to the free access of the public. This privilege was em_ 
braced by many thousand persons, and the meeting will learn 
with pleasure that neither accident nor misbehaviour occurred 
to mar the general satisfaction. 
On the whole, the resources of the Society have been this 
year severely tried, but not found wanting ; and the Council, 
* The subscriptions altogether amount to £276. 165, of which £41. os. are 
still unpaid. 
