the liquidation of all debts, as far as possible, before the end 

 of December, so that the Society might have an accurate view 

 of the year's expenditure at the General Annual Meeting. 



Looking at the very large sum due for arrears of Rent, 

 amounting to £820, your Auditors most earnestly recommend 

 you to take into consideration, the propi'iety of petitioning the 

 Crown for a reduction of the Garden Rent, which alone is 

 £740 per annum. The strongest grounds may be taken for 

 such a petition, inasmuch as the Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don is the parent of a numerous offspring who are now dif- 

 fusing a knowledge of Zoology and Natural History through 

 every part of the Empire. And we feel the strongest confi- 

 dence that our Illustrious Queen would lend a willing ear to 

 any supplication coming from you, which has for its object, the 

 intellectual improvement of her subjects, and the opening of an 

 unlimited field of scientific instruction to the rising generation, 

 by presenting to them a large collection of the most interest- 

 ing objects of the Creation. 



Before they close this Report, your Auditors have to ex- 

 press their satisfaction as to the system, and arrangement, as 

 well as the correctness, with which the Books and Accounts 

 of the Society are kept. And they consider the Assistant 

 Secretary deserving of their unqualified approbation for the 

 clearness and order, which he evinces in the department over 

 which he presides, the dispatch with which he produces every 

 document that may be demanded from him, and the unre- 

 mitting zeal with which he labours for the welfare and pro- 

 sperity of the Society. 



HARPUR GAMBLE. 

 FRED. W. CALDWELL. 

 GEORGE BURNELL. 

 FRED. JAMES FULLER. 

 EDWARD GREENAWAY. 

 WM. SQUIRE PRYOR. 

 WM. H. SAVAGE. 



PRESENTBB 



2 4 APR. 1903 



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