SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 65 
free days. Regular admission is a shilling for adults and six- 
pence for children, but on every Monday the admission is sixpence 
foreveryone. On Sundays the Gardens are closed to all persons 
save members of the Society and their friends, and those provided 
with special passes. The privileges of members—or ‘‘ Fellows’? as 
they are called—are many, but they pay smartly for them. The 
initiation fee of a member is $25, and the annual dues are $15; 
but the latter may be compounded for life by the payment of 
either $100 or $150, according to circumstances. Members are 
allowed to take their wives to the Gardens without payment, but 
there is a limit to the admission of friends. 
During the year 1895-6, the Gardens were visited by 665,526 
persons. Only twice since 1871 has the annual number of visitors 
fallen below 600,000, and eight times since that year it has ex- 
ceeded 700,000. The high-water mark was reachedin 1876, the 
year of the exhibiton of the Prince of Wales’ Indian Menagerie, 
when the turn-stiles clicked for 915,764 visitors. ‘The greatest 
number of visitors in a single day was 42,000, who came on the 
August bank holiday of 1876 ; but 30,000 on a holiday is by no 
means an unusual number. 
To Americans—and to all others who require zoological gardens 
—the income and expenses of the Zoological Society of London are 
matters of practical interest. For the year ending April 29th, 
1896, the principal items of the former were as follows : 
Admission tothe Gardens, 2 90:4). $175,067.20 
Members fees and dues,. ... . 37,550.40 
Income from refreshment privileges, 
riding animals, and sales,. . .. . 10,233.00 
Other items not relating tothe Gardens, 6,449.96 
$ 129,300.56 
The total expenditures during thesame period on account of 
the Gardensalone, and leaving out of account the expenditures 
for the library, publications, rent, taxes and insurance, amounted 
to $97,764. It may be stated that, in round numbers, the annual 
cost of maintaining the London Gardens is $100,000. 
The staff at the Gardens remains, from year to year, about 
the same. It consists of a Superintendent,* an Assistant Super- 
intendent (in 1896, Mr. Clarence Bartlett, who is now Superin- 
*For thirty-eight years this positon was filled most acceptably by Mr. 
A. D. Bartlett, who finally died ‘‘in the harness’? in May, 1897, only a few 
months after the author’s last visit to the Gardens. 
