The Ordinary Expenditure may be divided into 

 six principal heads : — 



1. The Expenditure for the Purchase and Carriage 

 OF Animals amounted only to £686 l^s. Id., a sum which 

 would have been inadequate to the reparation of the ordi- 

 nary losses by death had not the Menagerie been unusually 

 free from disease, and the animals generally in very first- 

 rate condition, resulting from the improved accommodation 

 which has been gradually added in the last seven years. 



While limiting the expenditure to this low amount, the 

 Council have omitted no opportunity of adding such ob- 

 jects of new interest as were offered to them ; and in the 

 List of Animals exhibited for the first time some very re- 

 markable types will be enumerated. 



2. The Provisions amounted to £3858 11*. lit/., re- 

 duction in this division having been found to be impracti- 

 cable during the continuance of the unprecedently high 

 prices which have existed throughout the year. 



3. The Incidental Menagerie Expenses amounted 

 to £1424 13*. 2d,, any reduction in this division having 

 been precluded by the great extent of the Collection, and 

 the advanced price of Coal, Straw, and other necessaries. 



4. The Repairs, Painting and other Expenses of 

 conservation amounted to £1607 IS*- 7d., previous expen- 

 diture on this account having brought the Society's pro- 

 perty into a sufficiently good state to admit of a saving of 

 upwards of £l700 on this head, as was anticipated in the 

 last Report of the Council. 



5. The Expenditure in the Gardener's Depart- 

 ment amounted to £565 10*., presenting a reduction of 

 £295 11*. lid. on the previous year, which was effected 

 by a diminution of the sums paid for labour and ibr the 

 purchase of plants. 



6. The Publications of the Society have created an 

 unusual amount of Expenditure, in consequence of their 

 having been brought up to the latest possible date. The 

 sum of £936 7*- Id. has effected this object, in accordance 

 with the desire of the Fellows expressed at the last Anni- 

 versary. This extraordinary demand on the Finances of 

 the Society will not of course recur, and the expenditure 

 of the present year under this head will return to its 

 ordinary limit. 



