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been executed in the most substantial manner, and will 

 require no further outlay, except for periodical painting, 

 for many years to come. 



b. Menagerie. 



In accordance with the principle laid down in their last 

 annual Report, the Council have directed their most ener- 

 getic and continuous efforts towards the acquisition of new 

 objects for the Menagerie. And they have great pleasure 

 in acknowledging the important promises of co-operation 

 with which their applications have been responded to by 

 many new, and several of the earlier and well-tried sup- 

 porters of the Society in Foreign Countries. Although it 

 may appear almost invidious to particularise individual 

 services, the Council cannot refrain from communicating 

 their most public thanks to Sir Thomas Reade, H.M. 

 Consul-general at Tunis ; to the Hon. C. A. Murray, H.M. 

 Consul-general in Egypt ; to the Hon. John Thomason, 

 Lieut.-Governor of the N.W. Provinces of Bengal ; to Sir 

 Thomas Erskine Perry, Chief Justice of Bombay ; to his 

 Excellency Lieut.-Col. Butterworth, Governor of Sin- 

 gapore ; to John Hadow, Esq., H.E.I.C. Civil Service, 

 Bombay ; to Mrs. Martin Stevenson, of Valparaiso ; to H. 

 N. Tvveedie, Esq., of Port-au-Prince ; to Don Javier Ovalle; 

 to Alexander Nesbit Shaw, Esq., H.E.I.C. Civil Service, 

 Bombay ; to J. Drummond Hay, H.M. Consul-general at 

 Tangier; to R. J. Bourchier, Esq. of Malta, w-ho all have 

 given valuable earnest of their desire and ability to advance 

 the objects of Zoological research. 



In addition to these and many other liberal supporters 

 of the Institution, whose names will be found in the list of 

 Donors, the Council have the satisfaction of reporting that 

 they have established relations with various Collectors in 

 countries likely to produce forms which have hitherto been 

 wanting in the Menagerie ; and they have neglected no 

 opportunity of strengthening their connexion with cognate 

 Institutions on the Continent, with a view to the mutual 

 benefits derivable from an interchange of duplicates. 



The most interesting addition during the past year which 



