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IV. MUSEUM. 



The Council, in pursuance of the announcement which 

 was made in their last Annual Report, have since that 

 period completed the delivery of a considerable portion of 

 the contents of the Museum to the Queen's College at 

 Cork, at the agreed price of £400, and are now engaged in 

 negotiations for disposing of the entire residue, which has 

 been reduced by this last transfer, and by other sales of less 

 importance, to a comparatively small limit. 



The only expenditure which has been incurred in respect 

 to the Museum, consists of the unavoidable cost of labour 

 and other expenses connected with these sales. 



V. GARDEN ESTABLISHMENT. 

 Menagerie. 



The state of the Menagerie, both in respect of health and 

 numerical strength, is fully equal to any previous period of 

 its history. 



The accumulation which annually results from the libe- 

 i-ality of Donors, and the increased success with which cer- 

 tain species have bred in the Establishment, had increased 

 the number of animals on the 31st of December last, to 

 1401, being 119 in excess of the preceding year. 



This gratifying position has enabled the Council to draft 

 from the Collection several duplicates, which, in the hands 

 to which they have passed, will extend the ultimate pro- 

 bability of the complete acclimatation of each species in 

 this country. 



The Elands which the Council had the pleasure of re- 

 porting at the last Anniversary to have been purchased by 

 the Viscount Hill, have thi-iven in the most satisfactory 

 manner since their removal to Hawkstone, in Shropshire : 

 and the Marquis of Breadalbane has now purchased the 

 three last Fawns, born in 1856, for the purpose of esta- 

 blishing them in Scotland. 



The singular success w hich has attended the importation 

 of Elands, makes every addition to the collection of Ante- 

 lopes more interesting. By the liberality of Capt. Shep- 

 herd, Director of the East India Company and Deputy- 

 Chairman of the Trinity House, the Society became pos- 

 sessed in June last, of an Oryx, which proves to be a 

 new species of that genus. Unfortunately this animal had 

 suffered considerably from too early confinement and the 



