10 



The Liabilities of the Society at the same time 

 amounted to £1471 11*. 2c?. 



The actual balance in favour of the Society was therefore 

 £8301 5*. 4d., and presented an increase over 



Dec. 31. 1850 £3856 6 3 



Dee. 3li 1849 £5721 6 11 



Dec. 31, 1848 £4092 18 6 



Adding to these assets in cash the increased value of 

 the permanent Buildings and the increased value of the 

 Collection of Living Animals, the whole result of the 

 financial operations of the year 1851 is an increase of pro- 

 perty to the amount of £12,093 2s. 5d. as compared with 

 1850. 



IL PUBLICATIONS. 



The Second Part of the Fourth Volume of the Transac- 

 tions has been published. 



It contains 17 plates, which fully illustrate Professor 

 Owen's Monograph of the Anatomy of the Indian Rhino- 

 ceros, and will afford the most valuable means of com- 

 parison whenever opportunities occur of investigating the 

 other great Pachydermatous forms in a similarly complete 

 manner. 



This Part of the Transactions contains a continuation of 

 Professor Owen's observations on the fossil Birds of New 

 Zealand ; and a most interesting Paper by Dr. Mantell on 

 the Discovery made by his son, of a living specimen of 

 Notornis Mantelli, one of the species of which bones have 

 occurred in juxtaposition with those of the extinct Moas 

 or Dinornis. 



The Third and Fourth Parts of the Volume are in pre- 

 paration, and will contain elaborate papers on the Cranium 

 and general Osteology of the Great Chimpanzee, Troglo- 

 dytes Gorilla, in continuation of Prof. Owen's previous 

 communications on the Anthropoid Apes in the First, Se- 

 cond, and Third Volumes of the Transactions. 



The papers intended for publication in the Proceedings 

 are fully equal in interest to those of former years, and 

 will be illustrated by a series of plates, which, it is believed, 

 are second to none which have hitherto appeared in the 

 periodical literature of Zoology. 



Several Reports have been issued by the Secretary du- 

 ring the past year on the general progress of the CoUec- 



