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Conclusion. 



In conclusion, the Council ask for the Society's best 

 thanks, as well foi' the gentlemen composing the Com- 

 mittees of Audit and Finance, who have devoted much 

 time and attention to their respective branches of the 

 Society's business, as for the persons comprised in the 

 above long List of Donors to the Menagerie. Among the 

 latter, they cannot avoid particularizing the names of 

 His Excellency Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape 

 Colony, and His Excellency William Dougal Christie, 

 H.M.'s Minister to the Brazils; of whose numerous and 

 valuable donations they have endeavoured to show some 

 acknowledgment by presenting to these gentlemen the 

 Silver Medal of the Society. 



Both these gentlemen continue to take a lively interest 

 in the Society's affairs, and Sir George Grey, on his recent 

 departure, kindly allowed an agent of the Society to ac- 

 company him to Southern Africa, to assist in securing for 

 the Menagerie further specimens of the many valuable 

 Mammals and Birds which are found in the Cape Colony. 

 Aided by so many generous friends, and the general sup- 

 port of the public, as testified by the increasing popularity 

 of the Garden establishment, the Council have no fear 

 for the future prospects of the Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don, which is now entering its thirty-fourth year since its 

 foundation. 



