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James Wood, Esq. Freshwater Limpets. 



W. M. Burnee, Esq. Seven Actinia. 



Mrs. Egan. A Collection of Freshwater 



Animals, Plants, ^c. S^c. 



Conclusion. 



In concluding their Report, the Council are anxious to 

 record their thanks to the Committees of Audit, Fi- 

 nance, AND Publication, for the assistance which they 

 have conferred in the respective branches of business which 

 have been referred to them. 



The Council cannot but congratulate the Society on the 

 extremely satisfactory condition of the Collection of living 

 animals in the Menagerie, and the generally efficient state 

 of the whole Garden establishment, which, together with 

 the prospect of the unusually important additions now on 

 their way to this country, and the cordial support with 

 which the objects of the Society are prosecuted in various 

 parts of the world, give every ground for anticipating a 

 still further improvement, both in the Collection and 

 in the Revenue which results from it. 



It is the anxious desire of the Council, while preserving 

 unimpaired the present vigorous working of the EstabHsh- 

 ment, to increase, by wise but not illiberal economy, the 

 funded property of the Society to the amount which they 

 consider sufficient for the purposes of a reserve fund ; and 

 they trust that the present prospects of the Society are 

 such as will enable them to effect this object in the manner 

 they propose at no distant period. 



