The Council also allude with pleasure to the fact that 

 the amount received from the Garden Sales of surplus 

 stock during the year 1859 reached the large sum of 

 £1118 I5s. Id., while the total expenditure for cost and 

 carriage of animals reached only £967 1^. 8^., showing a 

 clear profit of £151 13s. 5(1. under this head. And this is 

 the more gratifying, as in no instance has any animal been 

 parted with that was not strictly a duplicate, so that the 

 completeness of the Society's unique collection of animals 

 has been no ways, impaired. 



b. Expenditure. 



The Reserve-fund having been raised to its full amount of 

 £5000, 3 per cent. Red., by the purchase of £500 Stock 

 in January 1859, the Council thought it their duty to 

 apply a portion of the surplus income of the Society to the 

 permanent improvement of the establishment. The sum 

 of £1772 Us. 6d. was therefore devoted to the erection of 

 such buildings, and works connected therewith, as there 

 appeared to be greatest need of The Council propose 

 to give details concerning these in a future part of their 

 Report. The ordinary Expenditure of the Society for the 

 past year was £12,387 10*. 3d., exceeding the estimate by 

 only £387 10*. 3d. ; and the Council are induced to hope 

 that, by means of several alterations lately made in the man- 

 ner of conducting the Garden-establishment, by extension 

 of the system of employing their own workmen instead of 

 having recourse to extraneous assistance (when additional 

 aid is required), and by judicious reforms in the supplies 

 of provisions and other necessaries, which they have re- 

 cently effected, they will be able to keep the ordinary ex- 

 penditure of the Society strictly within this Umit. At the 

 same time, they see no reason that their income, though 

 somewhat dependent on the proverbial precariousness of 

 the English climate, should undergo any serious reduction, 

 and they may add that for the present year there is every 

 prospect of a material increase of receipts. 



c. Assets and Liabilities. 



The Cash Assets of the Society on the 31st of Decem- 

 ber 1859 amounted to — 



