Journal ; the Editor of the Zoologist ; the Editor of the 

 Literary Gazette ; the Editors of the ' Atlantis ' ; and 

 the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine. 



IV. GARDEN ESTABLISHMENT. 

 a. Works. 



1. The Council having strictly adhered to the practice 

 of the previous year, have limited the works in 1858 to 

 those only which were absolutely necessary to prevent 

 deterioration in the Society's property, and to such minor 

 improvements as were of the most obvious and pressino- 

 advantage. ^ 



The state of the Garden bears evidence of the effect 

 which has been produced ; and the new Walk from the 

 South Entrance towards the Reservoir, which has been 

 opened since the end of last year, affords great facility for. 

 the circulation of visitors. 



b. Menagerie. 



To give a detailed account of a collection which exceeds 

 1300 individual specimens of more than 600 species of 

 vertebrate animals, is obviously beyond the limits of this 

 Report; but the Council are desirous of placing in the 

 hands of the Society some record of the state to which 

 they have advanced at this period. 



The principal divisions of the collection are — 



1. Invertebrates. 



2. Fishes. 



3. Reptiles. 



4. Birds. 



5. Mammals. 



I. INVERTEBRATES. 



The attention of the Council having been earnestly di- 

 rected to the probable success with which Marine Zoology 

 might be illustrated in a building specially appropriated 

 for that purpose, an Aquarium was constructed in 1852, 

 and opened to the pubHc in the year 1854. 



The extreme beauty of the animals exhibited in it, the 

 novelty of the subject, which up to that time had been 



