the extensive celebrity which they had consequently ac- 

 quired, have associated their names too intimately with the 

 kindred sciences of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, to 

 allow their erasure from the lists of the Society, without a 

 passing tribute of respect for their memory, and an acknow- 

 ledgement of the extent and value of their labours. 



c. Corresponding Members, 



The number of Corresponding Members at the present 

 moment amounts to 134, besides two candidates for elec- 

 tion, being an addition of 8 within the past year. This va- 

 luable and useful class of our Associates is dispersed over 

 every part of the habitable globe with which the British 

 Empire maintains either colonial or commercial relations ; 

 they are therefore most favourably situated, and enjoy fre- 

 quent opportunities of promoting the objects of the Society; 

 and arrangements are at present under consideration for 

 rendering their zeal and services more extensively available 

 than heretofore, by a regular and systematic plan of corre- 

 spondence, and such other means as may be found practica- 

 ble and expedient. 



2. Finances. — a. Income and Expenditure. 



The income, derived from the ordinary resources of the 

 Society during the year 1839, amounted to £13,431 12*. Sd. ; 

 the ordinary expenditure for the same period was 

 £11,949 13*. 2d., leaving a balance of £1481 19*. 0^. in fa- 

 vour of the income. The extraordinary receipts, produced 

 by the sale of the Freehold Estate at Kingston Hill, 

 amounted to £1031 3s. Od.; and the extraordinary ex- 

 penses, arising from the erection of the New Monkey-house, 

 to the sum of £1688 Os. od., showing a deficit on this item 

 of £65Q 17 s. 3d., which, together with the sum of 

 £35 8*. lid. loss on the sale of £2000 Exchequer Bills, 

 deducted from the balance in favour of the ordinary income, 

 leaves a net balance of £789 12s. lOfZ., in favour of the So- 

 ciety, on the entire receipts and expenditure of the year. 

 This net balance, with a farther sum of £10 7*. 2d., amount- 



