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THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



perhaps the holiday which the ear and nose enjoy in this pictured visit 

 is not without its pleasures and relief. . . . The publication of a 

 work so spiritedly, yet so carefully got up as this, is a real treasure to 

 science. Anyone may now have his own menagerie in his own room — 

 every gentleman be his own Wombwell. 



Till long beyond this date it will not be possible to tabulate 

 the condition of the Menagerie stock with any approach to 

 accuracy. All the details procurable with regard to the number 

 of animals in the Gardens at the Anniversary Meeting in 1829 

 are given on p. 36. At the next anniversary no particulars were 

 afforded, but a record of the number and species of " living 

 animals at present exhibited in the Gardens and at Bruton 

 Street" was laid upon the table for the inspection of the 

 Fellows. In an account published in the Annual Keport 

 presented in 1831 there are included 178 species of mammals 

 and 195 of birds. At the end of the list it is stated that 

 "many of the smaller British birds which have been kept in 

 the Society's Aviaries are purposely omitted, as are also the 

 Reptiles, although many species of this class have been con- 

 tinually exhibited in the Gardens." This list was probably made 

 up to December 31, 1830, as were the accounts, but in many 

 cases the figures, especially those of the breeding lists, refer to 

 the period between one anniversary and the next. 



Fellowship Roll, Visitors and Finance. 



* From April 27— December 31. 



