c. Assets and Liabilities. 



The available Assets of the Society on the 3lst of De- 

 cember 1856 amounted to — 



£ 



Money at the Bankers 554 



Cost of £3000 Red. 3 per Cents .... 2635 

 Subscriptions for 1856 and previous years . 321 



Ivory Tickets 7 



Transactions sold 18 



Proceedings sold 178 



Garden Sales 223 



Museum Sales 340 



4277 16 8 

 TheLiabilities at the same period amounted to 2962 19 10 



Leaving a balance in favour of the Society of . 1314 16 10 



exclusive of the Library, the living Collection, the Build- 

 ings, and all the other property in the Regent's Park, 

 valued by the Auditors in 1853 at £58,600. 



II. PUBLICATIONS. 



The Illustrated Volumes of Proceedings for 1853 and 

 1854 M^ere issued immediatel}^ after the last Anniversary; 

 the volume for 1855 has been completed, and the volume 

 for 1856 is in a forward state of preparation. 



The Letterpress is complete up to the 25th of Mai'cli in 

 •the current year. 



The Fourth Part of the Fourth Volume of the Transac- 

 tions is ready for delivery ; it contains two papers by Pro- 

 fessor Owen in continuation of previous labours on the 

 Anthropoid Apes, and Dinornis, and a third containing 

 the commencement of his investigation of the Anatomy of 

 the Great Anteater, which died in the Menagerie in 1854. 

 The Part is illustrated by 12 large Plates, executed princi- 

 pally by Mr. Erxleben. 



III. LIBRARY. 



The additions to the Library chiefly consist of Transac- 

 tions and other Publications of learned Societies, with whom 

 the Zoological Society is in correspondence j the purchases 

 having been limited to the 



