2. Finances. 

 a. Income. 



The Income of 1857 amounted to £14,822 15s. 5rf., 

 which may be regarded as a favourable result, considering 

 that the permanent sources of revenue have in all cases 

 maintained an average sum, excepting the Receipts at 

 THE Garden Gate, where a decrease of £223 only took 

 place, as compared vfith those of the previous year. This 

 decrease did not however result from any falling off in the 

 attractions of the Establishment, as the money taken on 

 Mondays and Holidays presented an increase of £288 

 19*., representing an increase of 11,558 visitors, as com- 

 pared with 1^56, which was the eighth most productive 

 year on record. 



The Subscriptions amounted to £2802 15s., giving 

 an increase of £20 6ff. over 1856. 



The Admission Fees amounted to £245, and the Life 

 Compositions produced the considerable sum of £420, 

 being an increase of £90 over the same head in 1856, and 

 nearly equal to the very favourable year of 1855. 



The Garden Sales also exhibited a considerable in- 

 crease, having brought in £971 Us. '^d., or £141 7^- 10c?. 

 more than in the previous year, an improvement prin- 

 cipally attributable to the large number of valuable species 

 which are now annually bred in the Menagerie. 



b. Expenditure. 



The Expenditure incurred in the year 1857 was 

 £12,305 14s. 'Jd., falling within the Income by no less a 

 sum than £2517 Os. lOd. 



The actual decrease, as compared with the year 1856, 

 was £2698 Os. lie?., which has been effected without 

 impairing the attractions or good order of the Collection, 

 by means strictly in accordance with the suggestions 

 offered by the Auditors at the last Anniversary. 



The Ordinary Expenditure is divided into six 

 heads : — 



1. The payments for the Purchase and Carriage 

 OF Animals, including £167 18s. belonging to the arrears 

 of 1856, amounted to £950, of which more than half was 



