financial result at least equal to that of 1850. For it is 

 to be remarked that the whole of the decrease in the Garden 

 Receipts, which appears in the comparison between the 

 years 1852 and 1850, took place between the 1st of June 

 and the 1st of September, the receipts during the other 

 nine months having been rather in excess of the corre- 

 sponding period of 1850. 



b. Expenditure. 



The expenditui-e paid in the year 1852 amounted to 

 £l7,821 19«. 3c?. ; that is to say, under the head of 



Ordinary Expenditure. . . £14,122 18^. 4c?. 

 Extraordinary Expenditure , £3,699 Os. Ud. 



(including the arrears of 1851 which amounted to £1470). 



The expenditure actually incurred amounted to a further 

 sum of £3637 10«. 5d., of which £1461 7^. 6c?. is also 

 attributable to Extraordinary Expenditure. 



The Extraordinary Expenditure for Permanent 

 Buildings, Works and Improvements thus amounted to a 

 gross sum of £5164, and was determined on at the begin- 

 ning of the year, before the peculiar reaction above alluded 

 to, the effects of bad weather, and the early termination of 

 the London Season, could be foreseen, and although large in 

 amount, has secured fully equivalent advantages in having 

 placed the Garden in a very advanced state of completeness, 

 and in having obviated the necessity of any new M'ork 

 whatever during the current year, with the single exception 

 of the fittings of the Aquatic Vivarium, which will be more 

 particularly mentioned hereafter. 



The Ordinary Expenditure presents a decrease of 

 nearly £2000 as compared with 1851, and only one item 

 in which an increase of any significance has taken place, 

 namely that of £767 1«. "^d. in the Cost of Provisions^ 

 which is principally attributable to the great increase which 

 has taken place in the Ruminant and Carnivorous branches 

 of the Collections ; the increase in the Cost of Hay and 

 Corn being £361 Os. 8d., and of Meat £314 7*. 7d. 



The sum of £1806 I4s. 5d. expended in the Purchase 

 and Carriage of Animals, when reduced by the amount 

 realized from the sale of Duplicates, and compared with 

 the extended list of acquisitions, which will appear in the 

 Report on the Menagerie, will not fail to appear extra- 



