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ing together to £800, have been invested permanently in the 

 3 per cent. Annuities. 



Though they cannot take credit for having effected such 

 extensive reductions as their immediate predecessors, the 

 Council have, nevertheless, the satisfaction of announcing 

 that their late year of office has not passed over without 

 some important ameliorations in this department. Of these 

 the most prominent is the reduction on the rent hitherto 

 payable for the Gardens in the Regent's Park ; the future 

 amount of which has been fixed, by a Treasury Minute 

 communicated to the Council on the 31st of last July, at 

 the sum of £440 7*. 8d., instead of the former rent of 

 £683 19*. 2d., being a saving to the Society of £243 11*. 6d. 

 per annum. This is, of course, exclusive of the sum of 

 £63 annual rent payable for the 10 acres of grazing ground 

 adjoining the Gardens, and which are not included in the 

 Treasury Minute. 



The greater concentration and more perfect classification 

 of the animals, admitted by the increased accomodation of the 

 new Monkey-house, have enabled the Council to dispense 

 with the services of one of the Keepers hitherto employed. 

 This will effect a saving of £75 on the annual amount of 

 wages and allowances; and, notwithstanding the very un- 

 favourable nature of the past season, the Cake and Confec- 

 tionary department has been relet to the former tenant, at 

 an advanced rent of £400, out of which, however, £40 were 

 remitted on account of the construction of the Ice-well here- 

 after mentioned. 



b. Assets and Liabilities. 



The Assets of the Society on the 31st of December, 

 1839, fell short of those at the corresponding period of 

 1838, by the sum of £310 7s. 2d., as will be seen from the 

 following comparative statement : 



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