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ral departments, and of registering more correctly the acces- 

 sions to it, have rendered necessary an increase in the esta- 

 blishment both of persons in charge of it and of attendants. 

 But it is hoped that the additional outlay may be more than 

 compensated by the increased Receipts : while a greater 

 number of competent officers must obviously be advantageous 

 in securing better attention to the preservation and exhi- 

 bition of the specimens, and in rendering them more available 

 for the purposes of science. The possession of an extensive 

 and accessible collection is obviously of the highest import- 

 ance to a Society whose object is the advancement of Zoology 

 in all its departments ; and a Museum formed accordingly 

 one of the essential requisites for the prosecution of the 

 study insisted on by the Members who first constituted the 

 Society. Hitherto the arrangements of the Museum have 

 been on so (^economical a scale that the expenditure has not 

 amounted, on an average of the ten years that have elapsed 

 since its foundation, to £700 annually. With the increased 

 powers now devoted to it, its utility may be confidently ex- 

 pected to become very considerably advanced. 



The premises in Leicester Square have been taken on 

 lease determinable, at the option of the Society, at the expi- 

 ration of three, five, seven, ten, or fourteen years. The So- 

 ciety consequently cannot long be burthened with the rent 

 payable for them, in the event of more extensive and com- 

 modious premises being at any time attainable on advan- 

 tageous terms. 



The rent is £400 annually. The premium paid for the 

 lease was £450, and the cost of the fixtures, taken at a valu- 

 ation, was £150. The fittings already ordered amount to 

 about £1200, independent of some incidental charges of 

 minor moment. 



The number of 



Visitors to the Musetim 

 in Bruton Street was, in 1835, 4138 ; and the money received 



