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on this account. After these payments had been met, a balance of^ 1052. 11.0 

 had been carried forward to the credit of the present year. The usual 

 scientific Meetings had been held during the year 1893 and a large 

 number of valuable communications had been received upon every branch 

 of Zoology. These had been published in the annual volume of »Proceed- 

 ings« which contained 812 pages illustrated by 64 plates. Besides this, 

 parts 5, 6 and 7 of the 13th Volume of the Society's Quarto »Transactions« 

 had been published in 1893. Part 8 of the same volume had been issued 

 since the commencement of the present year; the 29th Volume of the Zoo- 

 logical Record (which contains a summary of the work done by Zoologists 

 all over the world in 1892) , edited by Dr. David Sharp, F.R.S., had been 

 published and issued to subscribers early in October last , being several 

 months before the usual date of publication. The Library containing up- 

 wards of 20 000 Volumes had been kept in good working order during the 

 past year and had been much frequented by working Zoologists. A large 

 number of accessions both by gift and purchase had been received and in- 

 corporated. No new buildings of importance had been erected in the Gar- 

 dens during the year 1893, but the Society's Stafi" of workman had been 

 kept busily engaged on various repairs and renewals throughout the year. 



The Stafi" at the Gardens remained nearly the same as at the last Anni- 

 versary and consisted altogether of about 100 persons. The number of 

 visitors to the Gardens in 1893 had been 662 649, the corresponding num- 

 ber in 1892 having been 605 718. The increase of 56 931 entrances must 

 be attributed mainly to the favourable weather that prevailed throughout 

 the summer. The number of animals in the Society's Collection on the 31st 

 of December last was 2522, of which 708 were mammals, 1460 birds and 356 

 reptiles. Amongst the additions made during the past year 12 were spe- 

 cially commented upon as of remarkable interest and in most cases repre- 

 senting species new to the Society's Collection. Amongst these were a fe- 

 male Waterbuck , born in the Menagerie, 4 South-island Robins from New 

 Zealand (exhibited for the first time), a fine specimen of the Great Grebe of 

 South America and a Cunning Bassaris. About 29 species of Mammals, 

 15 of Birds , 3 of Reptiles and Batrachians had bred in the Society's Gar- 

 dens during the summer of 1893. The report concluded with a long list of 

 the Donors and their various donations to the Menagerie during the past 

 year. A note of thanks to the Council for their Report was then moved by 

 W. H. Hudleston Esq. J.R.S. seconded by Sir Albert Rollet, M. P. and 

 carried unanimously. 



The reported having been adopted the Meeting then proceeded to elect 

 the new Members of Council and the Officers for the ensuing year. The usual 

 ballot having been taken it was announced that Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S. 

 Herbert Druce, Esq., F.L.S., Sir JosephFayrer, K.C. S.I. , F.R.S., Major 

 Henry P. St. John Mildmay, Professor Alfred Newton, F.R.S., had been 

 elected into the Council in the place of the retiring Members , and that Sir 

 William H. Flower, K.C.B. , F.R.S. had been re-elected President, 

 Charles Drummond, Esq. Treasurer, and Philip Lutley S dater, Esq. 

 M. A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society for the ensuing year. The 

 Meeting terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the Chairman which 

 was proposed by Lord Monk-Bretton, seconded by Dr. Henry Wood- 

 ward, F.R.S., and carried unanimously. 



