STATEMENT showing the RECEIPTS and EXPENDITURE of the Society from the Year 1848 to the 31st Dec. 1875.

Publications.-The 45th volume of the 'Journal' was published in February last, and the greater portion of the impression has already been distributed to Fellows applying for their copies. Volume 19 of the 'Proceedings' has also been completed, and the concluding parts circulated, since the last Report. Three numbers of Volume 20 have also been issued during the present Session.

Livingstone Aid Expeditions.-The last of these Expeditions undertaken by the Society has been recently brought to a successful close by the return of Lieutenant Cameron to England, after accomplishing the great feat of traversing Equatorial Africa, from Zanzibar to the Portuguese possessions, on the Coast of Angola. As stated in the last Council Report, the title of "Livingstone East Coast Aid Expedition," originally given to this undertaking, was changed to that of "Cameron Expedition," on the fresh start made by its distinguished leader, after receiving and sending home the remainder of Dr. Livingstone's property at Ujiji. In the present balance-sheet a small part only appears of the great expenditure incurred by the Expedition since leaving Ujiji, and especially in the purchase and equipment of a schooner at Loanda for the purpose of sending safely to their homes the 57 Zanzibar negroes who accompanied their leader across the continent. The greater portion will fall into the accounts of 1876, the bills having been presented since the close of 1875. The Council are unable at present to state the exact total amount that will be chargeable in the next Balance Sheet, but estimate it at about 30007.

Library. The Library now contains 17,164 books and pamphlets, of which 765 were added during the past year, 551 (including all the pamphlets) being donations, and 214 purchased. Besides these, and without reckoning newspapers, 1632 separate parts or numbers of periodicals, Transactions, Reports, &c., have been received. 23 whole volumes and 140 separate parts have been obtained, for the most part by gift, in or towards completion of defective series.

In addition to the numerous pamphlets and small works put into covers on the Society's premises, 541 volumes have been bound and 193 repaired during the past year.

The sum of 1567. 2s. 2d. has been expended by the Library Committee in purchasing books, and the further sum of 1347. 58. in binding.

The balance of the donation of 2007. by the late Admiral Sherard Osborn, to be applied in the purchase of books, has been so expended, and the following is a list of the whole works purchased with the fund:-D'ORBIGNY, Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale, D'URVILLE, Voyage au Pole Sud, DUPERREY, Voyage de la Coquille, VAILLANT, Voyage de la Bonite, BARKER-WEBB and BERTHELOT, Histoire des Iles Canaries, Ross, Zoology and Botany of the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror, FITZROY, Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, RICHARDSON, Fauna Boreali-Americana, LABORDE, Voyage de l'Arabie Pétrée, MARSILI, Danubius PannonicoMysicus, HUMBOLDT, Voyage aux Régions équinoxiales, PERRY, Expedition to China Seas, HUMBERT, Le Japon illustré, HENNEPIN, Nouvelle découverte and Nouveau Voyage dans l'Amérique, and WILKINSON, Topography of Thebes; in all, 87 volumes (including 13 folio Atlases of coloured plates).

Apart from these works, among the more important accessions, are:-16 bound volumes of pamphlets and Parliamentary Reports relating to the search for Sir John Franklin (presented by John Barrow, Esq.); Narratives of the Voyages of Cieça de Leon, Piedrahita, Zarate, Gomara, Torquemada, Oviedo, Herrera, Cabeza de Baca, Frezier, Acosta, and Cortés, with other valuable works on ancient Peruvian geography and history (presented by C. R. Markham, Esq.); a collection of 76 valuable geographical works (presented by General Sir W. Codrington); Juan and Ulloa's Relacion del Viage a la America meridional, and 6 vols. of Ramon de la Sagra's Historia de la Isla de Cuba (presented by J. P. Gassiot, Esq., Junr.); Reports on the Revenue, Topographical and Archæological Surveys of India, with 4 Manuals of Madras districts (presented by H.M. Secretary of State for India); Bory de St. Vincent's Expédition Scientifique de Morée; Choris's Voyage pittoresque autour du Monde; Schweinfurth's Artes Africana; the China Port Catalogues, 1863-72; Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians; Demarcacion politica del Peru (presented by the President of the Republic); Calancha's Coronica de S. Augustin en el Peru; the travels of Macarius and Evliya

Efendi, and all other works of geographical interest issued by the Oriental Translation Fund; the completion of Lartet and Christy's Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ, and the commencements of Raimondi's Peru and Reclus's Géographie universelle (presented by the Authors); and the volumes hitherto wanting to complete the Library series of the Journal Asiatique, Tour du Monde, Revue Maritime et Coloniale, Baer und Helmersen's Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Russischen Reiches, Erman's Archiv von Russland, and of the publications of the Ethnological and Hakluyt Societies. A complete set of the Addresses of Presidents of the Royal Geographical Society, and a duplicate series of the Journals, Proceedings, and other publications of the Society, have been obtained for Library use.

101 photographic views of Spitzbergen have also been presented to the Library by Count Wilczek; 25 photographs of various parts of the Territories, by Dr. F. V. Hayden; and models of the Aztec Sacrificial and Calendar stones, by C. H. Wallroth, Esq.

The above additions and the entire re-arrangement of the Library have rendered the erection of two further presses necessary; and the purely geographical part of the Library has been re-pressmarked, similar work being now in hand as to the remaining portion, under the superintendence of the Library Committee of Council, which has held its usual meetings.

The period of retaining recently-acquired books before lending to Fellows has been, since the last Report of Council, reduced from twelve to six months.

The Library continues to be much consulted by Fellows of the Society, private students, authors, and officers of the public departments; and it is expected that the numbers of such visitors will be materially augmented, when its rapidly increasing value for general science as well as pure geography becomes better known.

Map-Room.-Since the last Anniversary, 1 Globe, 578 Maps on 1491 Sheets, 18 Atlases comprising 524 Maps, 31 ReliefMaps and Models, and 8 Photographs and Portraits, have been added to the Collection; of which 107 Sheets of Maps and 3 Atlases, and the Relief-Maps and Models, have been acquired by purchase; 8 Diagrams have also been constructed,

and 7 Pictorial Illustrations obtained, for the Evening Meetings.

The more important accessions are:-1 Terrestrial Globe, 36 inches diameter; presented through Admiral E. Ommanney by the Sir James C. Ross Memorial Committee. 754 Sheets of the Ordnance Surveys of Great Britain and Ireland, on various scales; presented by the First Commissioner of Works, through Sir Henry James and Major-Gen. Cameron. 93 British Admiralty Charts; presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, through Capt. F. J. O. Evans, Hydrographer. 187 Sheets of the various India Surveys; presented by H.M. Secretary of State for India, through the India Office. 89 French Admiralty Charts; presented by the Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine. Maps and Photographs issued by the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories; presented by Professor F. V. Hayden, Director. Maps of Routes and Reconnaissances made by Officers of the Egyptian Staff Expedition; presented by General Stone, Chief Staff, Egyptian Army; also several duplicate copies, presented by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. MS. maps executed by Officers of Col. Gordon's Expedition to the Upper Nile; presented by Col. Gordon. 4 Sheets of the Swedish Geological Survey; presented by Otto Torell, Director. 73 Sheets of Special Map of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, scale; purchased. Atlas of Works executed by the European Commission of the Danube, 2nd volume; presented by the Foreign Office. Handtke's Map of European Turkey, on 20 Sheets; presented by Carl Flemming, publisher. 21 Maps of European Countries; presented by Lord Arthur Russell. Railway Map of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, 1875, on 6 Sheets; purchased. Geological Map of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; purchased. 2 Maps of the City and Environs of Milan; presented by Antonio Vallardi, publisher. Statistical Atlas of United States; presented by Prof. F. A. Walker, Superintendent of 9th census. Map of British Guiana; presented by H.E. the Governor. 8 Sheets of a Topographical Atlas of the United States West of the 100th meridian; presented by Lieut. J. M. Wheeler, U.S. Army. 13 Maps of Portions of United States Territories; presented by Spencer Curley, Esq. Parts 21 to 30 of Stieler's Atlas of Modern Geography, and Parts 12 and 13 of Spruner's