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ject of surprise may probably be, not the smallness of that 

 number, but that it ever could have been greater. 



It is also observable, that between the years 1831 and 1888 

 the proportion of privileged to paying visitors has greatly 

 increased ; this arises, in great measure, from a very gratify- 

 ing cause — the enlargement of the list of Fellows. 



In the number of these, however, there has been a trifling 

 decrease during the past year. In that period 187 Members 

 have joined the Society or been readmitted into it ; while the 

 removals, resignations, and deaths have amounted to 199. 

 The number of Fellows and Fellows-elect on this day is 

 3011. 



There are at present 38 candidates for the fellowship of 

 the Society. 



Corresponding Members. 



The privileges of the Corresponding Members have been 

 defined, and facilities for incorporating themselves with the 

 Society granted to these, its valuable associates and bene- 

 factors, by a By-Law, (Chap. vi. sec. 3,) passed last year. 



The total number of Corresponding Members at present 

 is 126, 8 having been added since the last Anniversary. 



By the decease of M. Fred, Cuvier, the Society has to 

 lament the loss of a Foreign Member who combined a warm 

 and sincere interest in its prosperity with an active partici- 

 pation in the advancement of its scientific objects. 



This eminent naturalist was, as is well known, the 

 younger brother of the illustrious Baron Cuvier, and was 

 born at Montbelliard in Alsace in 1773. He combined 

 with considerable intellectual powers, studious habits and a 

 marked predilection for Zoological pursuits ; and his ap- 

 pointment as Keeper of the Menagerie at the Jardin des 

 Plantes afforded him the most favourable opportunities of 

 studying the management, habits, and structure of animals. 

 On every occasion in which the great experience accumula- 

 ted by M. F. Cuvier in the performance of his official duties 

 was appealed to by the Council or Committees of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society for information on subjects calculated to im- 

 prove the management of our own Menagerie, he responded 



