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 Although the Society is not in a state approaching to poverty, it may be useful to offer a few remarks respecting the distribution of its money.

Expense of Engravings for Sir E. Home's Papers.—The great expense of the engravings which adorn the volumes of the Philosophical TranactionsTransactions [sic], is not sufficiently known. That many of those engravings are quite essential for the papers they illustrate, and that those papers are fit for the Transactions, I do not doubt; but, some inquiry is necessary, when such large sums are expended. I shall endeavour, therefore, to approximate to the sum these engravings have cost the Royal Society.

Previous to 1810, there are upwards of seventy plates to papers of Sir E. Home's; in many of these, which I have purposely separated, the workmanship is not so minute as in the suc-