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Committee to continue, conjointly with Mr. Yarrell, their 

 superintendence of the establishment at Kingston Hill, and 

 to endeavour bj?^ every practicable means to reduce its ex- 

 penses. At the same time several reductions were made on 

 the recommendation of the Committee, and the annual ex- 

 penditure was fixed at a sum not exceeding £1400. 



In February last the Committee reported to the Council. 

 They stated that the expenditure during the last six months 

 of 1832 had been kept considerably within the amount named, 

 and that a still greater diminvition might have been effected 

 but for some circumstances which they noticed; they added, 

 that as Members of the Council they Avere aM^are " that 

 fui'ther reduction of expenditure is considered desirable in 

 some branch of the Society's establishment, and the Farm 

 being apparently the least attractive part, as well as the least 

 popular, the Committee cannot but apprehend that it is 

 most probable that the Council will deem it expedient to 

 effect such reduction by the sacrifice in part, or in toto, of 

 this department. Should the Council take this view of the 

 subject, an immediate reduction may be effected, both in 

 the number of animals and assistants, by disposing of and 

 dischai'ging all those not intended to be kept, and a final 

 abandonment might take place whenever accommodations 

 elsewhere are provided for the reception of that portion of 

 the Farm Stock Avhich the Coiuicil may deem it desii'able to 

 retain, or of such animals as it may be necessary, on various 

 grounds, to remove for a time from public exhibition at the 

 Society's Gardens in the Regent's Park." 



On the consideration of this Report the Council ordered, 

 as had been anticipated by the Committee, that considerable 

 reduction should be effected in the Farm Stock, by offering 

 a portion of it for sale by Auction together with some du- 

 plicate animals from the Gardens, in three successive 

 parts : of these Sales the first has already taken place ; 

 a second will be held to-morrow ; and the third about the 

 end of May. The result of the first sale, as well as of that 

 which took place in the summer, has been satisfactory. It 



