c. Corresponding Members, 



The number of Corresponding Members is 150. John 

 Drummond Hay, Esq., H.M. Agent and Consul-General 

 at Tangier ; Dr. Kaup, Director of the Museum at Darm- 

 stadt; Peter Fraser, Esq., Colonial Treasurer of Van 

 Diemen's Land ; M. Jules Bourcier, of Paris, and Dr. 

 Bland, of Sydnej^, having been added to the list since the 

 last Anniversary, all of whom are capable of affording the 

 most valuable cooperation in the objects of the Society. 



Among the losses by death the Council have to mention 

 with much regret the name of Colonel Warrington, who 

 died at Tripoli, where he had resided for many years as 

 H.M. Agent and Consul-General. He was elected a Cor- 

 responding Member in 1828, and among the many dona- 

 tions for which the Society has been indebted to him, 

 recorded in the Reports of 1840, 1842, 1844, and 1845, 

 may be mentioned a very beautiful female Leopard, still 

 living in the Menagerie, five Osti-iches, and several im- 

 portant contributions to the Museum. 



Since the last Anniversary the privileges of the Fellows 

 have been increased by the issue of Twenty Free Admis- 

 sions to every Member on the payment of his subscription ; 

 and the Council have been influenced in framing this regu- 

 lation by the general feeling of satisfaction with which the 

 smaller number of twelve admissions given last year appears 

 to have been received by the Society at large. It having 

 come to their knowledge that many persons are in doubt 

 as to the exact amount of privileges to which they are now 

 entitled, the Council have directed a statement of them to 

 be appended to this Report, to which they can appeal with 

 confidence as a proof of their anxiety to direct the affairs 

 of the Society on the most liberal policy consistent with 

 the maintenance of its income. 



The Promenades will be continued on the usual scale, on 

 June 3, 24, ^nd July 22 ; in addition to which, in conse- 

 quence of the representations which have been made to the 

 Council with reference to the performances at the close of 

 last summer, the Band of the First Life Guards has been 

 engaged, by the obliging permission of their Commanding 

 Officer, for twelve successive Saturdays, from May 27th 



