Another vacancy has since occurred by the recent death of 

 the lamented Say. The number of the Foreign Members is 

 consequently 24. 



The Honorary Members remain, as at the last Anniversary, 

 10 in number. 



The Corresponding Members amount to 97. 



Under the head of 



Fma)ice, 



the statement which the Council have to make is peculiarly 

 gratifying, including as it does both an increase of income 

 and a diminution of expenditure. 



By the Report of the Auditors of the Accounts for 1834, 

 it will be seen that the Receipts in that year amounted to 

 £16,833 15s. 1^.; being an increase, as compared with 

 the previous year, of £1990 9s. \0d. This increase was 

 chiefly derived from the Members, whose payments to the 

 Society amounted to £7955 Qs. ; a sum exxeeding that re- 

 ceived for the Admission of Strangers to the Gardens and 

 Museum, which amounted to £7622 As. The Council 

 have the further satisfaction of stating that in the current 

 year, up to the present time, the receipts are greater by 

 £486 3s. \d. than those of the corresponding portion of 

 1834. 



The total Expenditure paid in 1834 will be seen, by 

 reference to the same Report, to have amounted to 

 £12,980 lis. 6J.: inl833, it amounted to£13, 152 9s.6rf. 

 There is consequently a diminished expenditure of £ 1 7 1 18s., 

 notwithstanding the great cost of the Rhinoceros, which was 

 purchased in the last summer at the price of £ 1 050 ; notwith- 

 standing also the payment of the rent for the Farm, which 

 had been outstanding, under peculiar circumstances, for more 

 than three years. This latter payment added considerably 

 in 1834 to the Expenditure on account of the Farm — an 



