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of this freehold property ; and that it was the intention of the 

 Council to sell the remaining portion of the land, consist- 

 ing of 5a. Or. 1 T^P.j upon the completion of this purchase. 

 An unavoidable delay having taken place in concluding this 

 arrangement, the final disposal of the property is, for the 

 present, postponed. 



Resignation of the Secretary. 



The recent resignation of the Secretaryship by Mr. Yar- 

 rell is a subject to which the Council refer with regret, as 

 they cannot but be sensible of the value of the services of a 

 gentleman who has long been an active and warm friend 

 to the Society's best interests, and whose zoological attain- 

 ments, and general acquaintance with business details, have 

 enabled him to fill the responsible office of Secretary in a 

 manner equally creditable to himself and advantageous to 

 the Society. 



The Council, however, are well aware that the time de- 

 voted by Mr. Yarrell to the business of the Society has 

 been only spared from his professional engagements at con- 

 siderable personal sacrifice ; and it therefore only remains 

 for them, in lamenting the loss which the Society sustains 

 in his resignation, to record their sense of the extremely 

 zealous and efficient manner in which, as Secretary, he has 

 discharged the duties of that office. 



Breeding of Animals. 



A wish having been expressed, at a recent monthly meet- 

 ing for general business, that some details should be fur- 

 nished to the Fellows of the results attending the Society's 

 efforts in the breeding of animals, the Council have selected 

 from a more extended list the following instances, as worthy 

 of notice. 



