THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



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names of 1,294 ordinary Fellows and forty Honorary and 

 Corresponding Members. Among these subscribers are in- 

 cluded the first three Presidents (Sir Stamford Raffles, the 

 Marquess of Lansdowne, and Lord Stanley, afterwards the 

 thirteenth Earl of Derby), the four Yice-Presidents (Lord 

 Auckland, the Earl of Darnley, the Marquess of Lansdowne, 

 afterwards President, and the Duke of Somerset), the first 

 Treasurer (Mr. Joseph Sabine), the first Secretary and Vice- 

 Secretary (Mr. N. A. Vigors and Dr. T. Horsfield) ; the other 

 members of the Council, as well as the Committee originally 

 nominated in July, 1824, whose names are given on p. 14. 

 The next important documents in point of date are the 

 covering circular and prospectus: 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Foe the general advancement of Zoological Science, it is proposed that 

 a Society shall be established, the immediate object of which will be 

 the collection of such living subjects of the Animal Kingdom as may be 

 introduced and domesticated with advantage in this country. 



For this purpose a collection of living animals belonging to the Society 

 will be established in the vicinity of the metropolis; to which the 

 members of the Society will have access as a matter of right, and the 

 public on such conditions as may be hereafter arranged. 



It is proposed that the Society shall have a museum, as well as a 

 library of all books connected with the subject ; to which access will be 

 given to the members and the public as above stated. 



As it is impossible to attain all the objects of the Society on its 

 first establishment, those of utility will engage its earliest attention, and 

 the more scientific views will be attended to as the means of the Society 

 admit. 



The Society will be directed as other public Societies are— by a 

 President, Council, and Officers, and regulated by laws to be established 

 with the concurrence of the members of the Society. 



A detailed Prospectus of the objects of this Society having been 

 circulated privately last year, a corrected copy is annexed. 



The Terms of Admission to the Society will be Three Pounds, and the 

 Annual Subscription Two Pounds ; or the whole to be compounded for 

 on the usual terms. 



A Committee of the following Noblemen and Gentlemen was originally 

 nominated by a meeting of friends of the proposed Society in July last,* 

 and the Prospectus is published under their authority. 



* Sir Stamford's name must have been added before his arrival in England 

 he reached Plymouth on August 22, 1824. 



