for the advancement of the Society continues to be manifested 

 ■with unabated ardom-, as is proved by the numerous dona- 

 tions both to the Menagerie and Museum, which will be an- 

 nounced in the following lists. Among those elected during 

 the past yeai", the Council have a peculiar satisfaction in re- 

 ferring to the name of Sir Jamsetgee Jejubhoy of Bombay, a 

 gentleman already honourably known for the munificent 

 patronage which ha extends to the charitable and scientific 

 institutions of his native country, and who has acquired the 

 well-merited approbation of his sovereign in the first knight- 

 hood ever conferred on a native of British India. Conjointly 

 with his friend A. N. Shaw, Esq. of the Honourable Com- 

 pany's Civil Service at Dharwar, also an active and zealous 

 Corresponding Member, to whom the Council are under many 

 obligations. Sir Jamsetgee Jejubhoy has already, with his 

 customary generosity, transmitted, at his own cost, a number 

 of valuable animals to the Society's Menagerie, some of which 

 have already arrived, and others are shortly expected. 



2. Finances. — a. Income and Expenditure. 

 The income of the Society for the year 1842 amounted to 

 the sum of £10,087 I8s. lOd., and the expenditure to 

 £9721 8s. 'Jd., leaving a surplus of £366 10*. Sd. in favour 

 of the income. The Council have to regret that the diminu- 

 tion of income noticed in last year's Report, as compared with 

 the previous receipts, has been continued during the past sea- 

 son ; but retrenchments have been effected in an equal or 

 greater proportion, and the Council have never lost sight of 

 the pledge so frequently repeated in former Reports, to reduce 

 the expenditure of the Society whenever an opportunity oc- 

 curred of doing so, without impairing the general efficiency 

 of the several departments. With this view they have reap- 

 pointed the Receipt and Expenditure Committee whose la- 

 boiu's were so eflfective in reducing the expenditure of the 

 Society in the year 1839, and from which they hope for equally 

 beneficial results during the present season. Already, on the 

 recommendation of the Committee, the Council have been in- 

 duced to consolidate the offices of Head Keeper and Medical 

 Superintendent, which will effect a saving of £250 per annum, 



