IV 
Appendix No. 1. 
Finances. —The Treasurer’s statement of receipts and expenditure for 
the year shows a deficiency of £8 6s. 7d., a result entirely due to the delay 
in the payment of a considerable number of subscriptions for 1882 and 
1888 by about eighty members, the sum owing being estimated at £60. 
A portion of this money has been paid in since the books were closed on 
the 31st of December, and it is anticipated that the bulk of it will be col¬ 
lected. The Council has several times pointed out the very great 
inconvenience occasioned by such omissions, and the officers now strongly 
appeal to the good sense and good feeling of the members to remove this 
cause of friction in the otherwise smooth working of the machinery of the 
Club. In order to aid the Treasurer’s work a pink label will in future be 
attached to the circulars sent to those members whose subscriptions are 
unpaid at the expiration of three months from the 1st of January, with a 
statement of the amounts due. This will kindly be received as an inti¬ 
mation that such subscriptions should be paid in immediately.* 
Transactions. —Part 7 of the ‘ Transactions ’ was published in June, 
and contained (including two appendices) 298 pp. of closely printed 
matter, illustrated with forty-two woodcuts and two large folding plates. 
The Council highly appreciates the kindness of those gentlemen who, by 
the gift or loan of woodcuts and plates, enhanced so greatly the value and 
interest of our publication. Mr. Worthington Smith presented no fewer 
than twenty-six woodcuts; Mr. T. Y. Holmes gave the two expensive 
plates ; and Mr. Daw, Mr. Lister, Mr. Thomas, Messrs. Black, Cassell, Mac¬ 
millan, and the Trustees of the British Museum aided also in enriching 
the ‘Transactions.’ Mr. B. M. Christy has contributed £3 towards the 
illustration of his memoir on the genus Primula; and Mr. W. D. Howard, 
Mr. Meldola, and Colonel Bussell have kindly doubled their subscriptions 
(in accordance with a suggestion made in one of the presidential addresses) 
to increase the sum available for the expensive work of publication. 
Part 8 is now in hand, and in it will be printed all the unpublished papers 
and ‘Proceedings’ belonging to 1882. The Council proposes to make a 
vigorous attempt to overtake arrears of publication during the ensuing 
year, and trusts such efforts will be aided in every way by the members. 
Nothing would further more the objects the Club has in view, or give the 
Society a higher reputation among scientific workers, than the prompt 
publication of memoirs. 
Library and Museum.— The Library continues to increase slowly by 
donations and exchanges, but it is a source of regret to the Council that 
no funds have as yet been available for purchasing books to any ap¬ 
preciable extent. It is hoped, however, before long, that the annual 
income will admit of stated grants being made to the Librarian for the 
important purpose of adding to the Library some of the valuable works 
which are constantly being issued from the press. It may not be out of 
* [It is only justice to the Officers to state that the items in the Treasurer’s account 
under the headings “General Printing,” “Postages,” and “Sundry Expenses” were 
largely swollen by the unavoidable expenditure incurred in connection with opposition 
to the Forest Railway Scheme. See infra. —Ed.] 
