The general result is shewn by the annexed statement of Assets and Liabilities, from which it will be seen that the net balance to the credit of the Society at the close of the year was $333.92.
This appears to be as satisfactory a position as could have been anticipated, but it must be borne in mind that it results from the fact that the Society, while it has received the subscriptions for the entire year, has only issued one number of the Journal, instead of the two numbers, which it is pro- posed to issue yearly in future.
The cost of the publication of the number of the Journal for July did not much fall short of $400; and though the cost of the subsequent numbers is likely to be less consider- able, the publication of the two numbers must be expected to absorb a very considerable proportion of the income of the Society, which does not appear likely much to exceed $900 a year.
Straits Asiatic Society.
Cash account 1878.
| $ | C | |
| Sub'tions for 1878 | 817 | 50 |
| Sub'tionsdo. for„ 1879 | 6 | |
| Sale of Journal | 1 | |
| 827 | 50 |
| $ | C. | |
| Publication of Journal. | 356 | |
| Photographs | 12 | 50 |
| Lithographs | 6 | 50„ |
| Printing Notices &c. | 26 | 50„ |
| Advertisements | 10 | 52 |
| Allowance to Clerk | 60 | |
| Gas | 7 | |
| Postage | 26 | 59 |
| Stationery | 6 | 62 |
| Miscellaneous | 6 | 75 |
| 517 | 98 | |
| Balance | 309 | 52 |
| 827 | 50 |
Assets and Liabilities
1st January, 1879.
| $ | C. | |
| Balance Chartered Mercantile Bank | 297 | 52 |
| Balance Cash | 12 | 00 |
| Subscriptions 1878 outstanding | 72 | |
| $381.52 | ||
| $ | C. | |
| Bills outstanding Pub. of Journal (final) | 25 | |
| Sundries for December | 16 | 60 |
| Subscription for 1879 in advance | 6 | |
| 47.60 | ||
| Balance to credit | 333.92 | |
| $381.52 | ||
