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audited by Mr. Kelly and Mr. Pitman ; also a statement 
and recapitulation of the subscriptions paid and in 
arrear. 
In answer to Mr. Garnett, the Secretary said the 
amount of arrears in August was $5,278, now, according 
to this statement, reduced to $3,680. On looking through 
the list, however, he found a good many names that might 
have been struck off long ago — some of them were dead 
and others had left the colony — so that he thought the 
most practical way to deal with the list would be to 
appoint a Committee to weed out the hopeless names, 
and take proceedings against those in arrears who could 
be got at. 
Mr. Braud moved that the Secretary be instructed to 
strike off the names of all the dead members and those 
who had left the colony for good, and that the list as 
amended be handed over to a lawyer for the collection of 
the arrears. 
Mr. Cameron seconded the proposition which was 
carried. 
The President said that before proceeding to the order 
of business he wished to refer to the matter of Timehri, 
the Society's Journal and to enquire what connection 
there was between the Society's Journal and the Society 
from a financial point of view ? He saw from the 
accounts that an amount of $500 had been paid to the 
publisher from the Society's funds. 
The acting Treasurer, Mr. Conyers, said he could get 
no information about it from the publisher beyond the 
fact that this amount, (which had been paid before he 
took charge of the accounts) was an advance to meet the 
cost of publication of the Journal pending the collection 
