b. Expenditure. 



The remarkable increase of income has in some respects 

 been the cause, and in others the result, of the increase of 

 expenditure. 



The total increase of payments in 1850 as compared with 

 1849 is £4003 Os. 5d., but the liabihties at the close of 

 the year were reduced from £2162 to £862, and there has 

 been an increase of Assets effected in permanent buildings 

 and the value of the collection of living animals to at least 

 the amount of the remaining £2703. 



As the receipts exceeded the payments by £1373 

 14*. 11^., and the liabilities were reduced by £1300, it 

 results that the actual surplus of 1850, notwithstanding 

 the liberal expenditure above-mentioned, amounted to no 

 less than £2673. 



As it may be satisfactory to the Society to analyse the 

 particulars of this increase of expenditure, the Council de- 

 sire to remark, that under the item of £1180 145. for the 

 Cost of Animals, there is an increase of £474 1 7*. ; under 

 the item of £1025 10*. ^d. for the Carriage of Ani- 

 mals, there is an increase of £463 9*. 2d. ; and under the 

 item of £600 13*. 2d. for miscellaneous Menagerie Ex- 

 penses, there is an increase of £192 9*. \0d. The immense 

 addition to the value of the Living Collection, which will 

 be noticed hereafter in the Report upon the Menagerie, 

 would justify much larger amounts, and the Council have 

 therefore to congratulate the Society upon their having 

 been able to expend these sums with such manifest ad- 

 vantage. 



In the item of £1169 3s. 10c?. for permanent Buildings, 

 there is an apparent increase over 1849 of £576 1*. Qd., 

 which arises from a portion of the expenditure of that year 

 having been carried into the arrears, which were paid off 

 in the commencement of 1850. The amount which ap- 

 pears in the balance-sheet includes the cost of all the work 

 of this description executed in 1850, and has secured to 

 the Society the House for the Hippopotamus, the centre 

 part of the great Aviarj', and the additions to the small 

 Quadruped House. 



In the item of £308 8s. for the expenses of the Band, 

 there is an increase of £158 Ss. Ad. in consequence of the 

 prolonged period during which the services of Mr. Wad- 



