0. MISCELLANEOUS. 601 



dependent for a livelihood upon his own skill or labor, or 

 else supported by his parents or some other person or per- 

 sons ; but the poorer classes of the community are not to be 

 considered as having exclusive right to the benefit of the 

 institution. 12 A, August 15, 1872, 304. 



EEPOET OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOE 1871. 



The Zoological Society of London continues in the pros- 

 perous condition to which we have had occasion to advert in 

 previous years. The report of its anniversary meeting on the 

 29th of April announces an income in the year 1871 of about 

 $123,000, exceeding that of the preceding year by nearly 

 $7000. Of the sum mentioned, $66,000 was for single admis- 

 sions to the garden. Including season tickets, the yield to the 

 society by their gardens may be estimated at fully $100,000, 

 the remainder being the result of the subscriptions of mem- 

 bers, the sale of publications, etc. 



The secretary announces the appointment as prosector of 

 Mr. Alfred Henry Garrod, who succeeded Mr. James Murie. 

 The duties of this officer are to make anatomical and other 

 examinations of the animals dying in the society's gardens ; 

 and should the new incumbent be as industrious in this re- 

 spect as Mr. Murie, his labors will doubtless be equally well 

 appreciated. The total number of visitors to the gardens in 

 1871 amounted to 595,917, being nearly 23,000 more than in 

 1870, and more than in any previous year excepting in the 

 exhibition years of 1851 and 1862. The greatest number of 

 admissions in any one day was on the 29th of May, Whit- 

 Monday, amounting to 31,400. 



The number of vertebrate animals, mammals, birds, and rep- 

 tiles in the society's gardens in 1871 was 2072. 



DAMAGE TO THE PARIS MUSEUM BY THE BOMBARDMENT. 



According to the editor of the Journal de Co?ichiliologie, of 

 Paris, the Paris Museum received twenty-three shots from 

 cannon of the German besiegers in the course of the sieo'e.do 

 stroying many of the plant-houses. Two of these balls ex- 

 ploded in the conchological laboratory, in the care of Profess- 

 or ^Deshayes, causing great injury to the specimens, and the 

 Septaria in the general collection were literally ground to 

 powder. The large collection of shells of the lower sands of 



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