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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
1883 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. V. 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. R. M. Christy has contributed £3 towards the
illustration of his memoir on the genus Primula; and Mr. W. D. Howard,
Mr. Meldola, and Colonel Russell 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Part 8 is now in hand, and in it will be printed all the unpublished papers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.]