XX 
PROCEEDINGS OE THE 
Some of the hooks have had to he placed in two rows one behind 
the other on the shelves, and others are packed away in cupboards. 
It was stated in the report for 1882 that the Council had decided 
that a new catalogue should he prepared. This is now nearly 
ready for the press and it will probably he issued with the con¬ 
cluding part of the present volume of the ‘ Transactions.’ It will 
contain all hooks and bound volumes of pamphlets in the possession 
of the Society at the present time. Its preparation has taken 
longer than was anticipated, chiefly owing to the difficulty of getting 
the books arranged in the limited space available. The permission 
of the Public Library Committee has now been obtained for the 
Society to place a third book-case in the Lecture Boom, which will 
enable all the books at present in the possession of the Society, 
except the publications of Societies, to be placed in the room in 
which your meetings are held, and arranged for convenient reference. 
The cabinet of microscopic objects at Watford has received the 
following accessions:—52 slides by subscription to Mr. Cole’s 
‘ Studies in Microscopical Science,’ 27 slides of sections of Hert¬ 
fordshire boulders presented by Mr. J. Yincent Elsden, and 24 slides 
of sections of vegetable tissues presented by Mr. Bernard Piffard. 
The financial position of the Society continues to be most satis¬ 
factory. The expenditure has been £14 11s. 8 d. less than the 
ordinary receipts, and the sum of £25 has been received for life- 
compositions, thus increasing the entire funds of the Society from 
£314 17s. 10^. at the end of 1882, to £354 9s. 6d. at the end of 
1883, which amount comprises £198 15s. 6d . invested in Consols, 
£100 at the London and County Bank on deposit account, and 
£55 14s. 6d. on current account. £215 having been received for 
life-compositions, and there being an unexpended balance of £48 11s. 
from the late Mr. E. A. Pryor’s bequest, the accumulated balance 
of nine years’ ordinary receipts over expenditure thus amounts to 
£90 18s. 6d. The following is a resume of all the balance-sheets 
to the end of 1883 :— 
RECEIPTS. 
Annual Subscriptions ... 
Entrance Fees . 
Life Compositions. 
Sale of ‘ Transactions ’ * 
Pryor Bequest . 
Interest on Consols and 
Deposit Account 
£ s. d. 
808 10 0 
124 10 0 
215 0 0 
12 17 11 
91 16 0 
34 18 0 
EXPENDITURE. 
Printing ‘ Transactions ’ 
£ 
451 
s. 
18 
d. 
8 
Books, Stationery, and 
Miscellaneous Printing 
116 
7 
4 
Library, and property pur¬ 
chased. 
105 
18 
7 
Expenses of Meetings ... 
72 
7 
0 
Postages. 
110 
3 
6 
Sundry Expenses . 
33 
2 
4 
Pryor Bequest . 
43 
5 
0 
Investments and Balance 
354 
9 
6 
£1287 11 11 
£1287 11 11 
A similar resume for the first five years was given in the report 
for 1879. 
* On 31st December, 1883, £1 4s. Id. was due from the Society’s publisher 
for sale of ‘ Transactions,’ and has since been received. 
