The following is the statement with respect to the Receipts and Payments of the Society during the preceding year, which was laid on the table by the Treasurer : —
Statement of the Receipts and Payments of the Royal Society between
Nov. 29, 1838, and Nov. 28, 1839. Receipts : — £• s. d.
Balance in the hands of the Treasurer at the last Audit . . 1463 14 5
28 Weekly Contributions, at one shilling 72 16
159 Quarterly Contributions, at £1 : —
141 Annual Contributions at £4 564
One Reinstated (Two Annual Payments) . . 8 Six elected before the last Anniversary .... 600 Two elected before March 2oth, 1839 .... 8
Eight elected after March 25th, 1839 8
594
36 Admission Fees 360
1 Composition for Annual Payment at £40 40
10 Compositions for Annual Payments at £60 600
Rents : —
One year's rent of estate at Mablethorpe : due £. s. d. at Michaelmas, (less the expenses of de- fending the Tythe suit, £55. 13. 3) 51 6 9
One year's rent of lands at Acton : due at
Michaelmas, 1839 60
One year's fee-farm rent of lands in Sussex ;
land-tax deducted : dueatMichaelmas, 1839 19 4
One fifth of the clear rent of an estate at Lam- beth Hill, from the Royal College of Phy- sicians, in pursuance of Lady Sadleir's will :
due at Midsummer, 1839 3
133 10 9
Dividends on Stock : —
One year's dividendon £14,000 Reduced 3 per
cent. Annuities 420
Dividend on £3452. 1. 1 Consols, the produce of the sale of the premises in Coleman-
street 103 11 2
One year's dividend on £200 Consols .... 6
Donation Fund. One year's dividend on £4150. 0. Consols 124 10
Rumford Fund. One year's dividend on £2161 . 0. 10 Consols 64 16 6 One half year's dividend on £131. 10. 9. . . . 119 ^
Fairchild Fund. One year's dividend on £100 New South Sea
Annuities 3
— 723 17
Miscellaneous Receipts : —
Sale of Philosophical Transactions, Abstracts of Papers, and Catalogue of the Royal Society's Library 286 13
Sale of Catalogue to Subscribers 75
Total Receipts
£4349 11
