REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



In the following Report, the Council, according to their 

 annual custom, desire to present to their fellow Members 

 a brief outline of the present condition and prospects of 

 the Zoological Society, and of the history and proceed- 

 ings of the several departments since the last Anniver- 

 sary. 



I. GENERAL ESTABLISHMENT. 



1. Members. — a. Fellows. 



The number of Fellows and Fellows elect at the pre- 

 sent moment amounts to 2727, of which the following is 

 a summary : — 



Paying annual contributions of 2/. . . 1053 



Ditto 3?. 1034 



Have compounded 493 



Are on the dormant list 103 



Have not paid entrance-fees .... 44 



2727 



Of this number, 38 have been elected since the last 

 Anniversary, and 8 re-admitted under the provision of 

 the By-Laws, Chap. I. sect. 9. The number of resigna- 

 tions during the same period has been 84, and of deaths 

 52 ; and the removals ordered by the Council, in confor- 

 mity with the By-Laws, Chap. I. sect. 9, amount to 76. 



The number of Candidates for the Fellowship now on 

 the books is 13. 



Among the losses which the Society has suffered during 

 the past year, the Council cannot pass over the death of 

 their late distinguished colleague Sir Francis Chan trey 

 without recording their high sense of his moral worth, 

 unaffected singleness of purpose, and of the ready zeal 

 with which he devoted his great taste and extensive prac- 

 tical knowledge to the interests of the Society and the 

 embellishment of the Gardens. 



