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important status, but steps have been taken, which, it is hoped, will eventually lead 
to mutual advantage. 
The Council are in receipt of communications of a friendly nature from the 
following Societies:— 
^Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; Agri Horticultural Society, 
Kandy, Ceylon; and the Philosophical Society of Victoria. 
In resigning its charge, the Council _ trust that during the six months of its 
existence, it has shown that all the objects for which the Society was pro¬ 
fessedly established, have been attended to, and, so far as the time and means 
at its disposal would permit, carried out. During its period of office, there 
have been held, besides the monthly meetings previously mentioned, 12 
Council meetings and 12 Committee meetings, all well attended. 
Before concluding, the Council cannot forbear expressing its warmest thanks to 
the President, for the cordial, earnest, and active assistance and co-operation 
which he has ever evinced in forwarding its business, not only by attending 
its meetings, but in many other respects which it is unnecessary to relate. 
The best thanks of the Society are also justly due to the Honorary Secretary, 
who besides performing for some time the whole of its secretarial duties, has 
gratuitously furnished the council with office accommodation since its establish¬ 
ment, for the discharge of its duties. 
The number of Members at present on the roll is 550. 
By direction of the Council, 
H. It. "Webb. 
Adopted, 7th July, 1857. 
[appendix a.] REPORT 
Of the Finance Committee appointed by the Council of the Australian Horticultural and Agricultural Society 
on the 11th of December, 185(5. 
Your Committee, having received and examined the statement handed in by the Treasurer of each of the dis¬ 
solved Societies, finds that tlio gross assets amount to £553 Os. 3d., and tliu gross liabilities to £131 11 s. lid., 
leaving a balance in favour of the Australian Horticultural and Agricultural Society of £418 8s. 4d. Schedules’ 
supplying this information, together with an inventory of the property of the Society are appended. 
lour Committee also finds that the number of Members, omitting the repetition of the names of those who 
belonged to both the dissolved Societies, is 528. 
1 our Committee recommend that the unpaid subscriptions, amounting to £433 4s. 4d„ be immediately col¬ 
lected, and the liabilities paid off. 
That the property of the Society, which is at least of the value of £500, he vested in trustees, and insured, 
1 our Committee has also been informed that a portion of the property is at present stored at the Botanic Gar¬ 
dens, and the Director having intimated that he will shortly require the room thus occupied, your Committee 
recommend that permission be obtained, and that a store he erected in a suitable place at the Botanic Gardens. 
P. L. C. SHEPHERD, Chairman. 
SCHEDULE OP THE PROPERTY, EFFECTS, AND LIABILITIES OF THE AUSTRALASIAN 
BOTANIC AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Flower Tent, with iron and wooden pegs, stage, and green baize coverin',, &c. 
Fruit and Vegetable Tent, with ditto ditto 
Secretary's Tent 
Thirty-nine Wooden Forms 
Four Finger Posts 
Eighty-two American Chairs (more or less) 
Eight Cane Chairs 
One Office Table 
One Book Case 
One Canteen, 21 Tumblers, 60 Plates 
Four Ticket Boxes 
Two Cases of dried Specimens 
One packet of dried .Mosses 
Six vols. Andrews’ Heaths 
Three vols. Hooker’s Botanical Miscellanv 
Four vols. Hooker’s Journal of Botany 
Nine vols. Loudon’s Magazine of Gardening 
