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weather was unusually stormy and unsettled, and " seriously 

 affected the success of the experiment." But on the whole the 

 Council were satisfied, and for some few years the poultry shows 

 were carried on. In addition to money prizes, medals were 

 awarded for the best birds, but Fellows of the Society, if prize- 

 winners, received only an honorary certificate. At the first 

 show, A. D. Bartlett, afterwards Superintendent of the Gardens, 

 obtained a first prize and bronze medal for a turkey, and three 

 second prizes — one for Surrey fowls and two for geese. Accord- 

 ing to Yarrell (iv. 254), one of the geese was a wild grey lag, 

 sent from India by Blyth to Bartlett, who exhibited the bird. 

 Some additional privileges were granted to Fellows, in 1847, 

 by the issue of six tickets for the admission of two friends to the 

 Gardens, except on Promenade days. The public were admitted 

 on Mondays and Tuesdays, without an order, on payment of a 

 shilling, and at Easter and Whitsuntide this privilege was 

 extended for three days more. Soon after Whitsuntide visitors 

 were admitted on any week-day on payment of a shilling, except 

 when the Gardens were reserved for Fellows and their friends — 

 that is, on Promenade days. It is difficult to fix the date at 

 which this change took place ; but that it must have been in 

 May of this year is shown by the following extract from the 

 circular announcing the poultry show: — 



ADMISSION TO THE GARDENS AND 

 MUSEUM, REGENT'S PARK. 



Open from 9 o^ Clock in the Morning to Sunset. 



Visitors are admitted upon payment of Is. by each 

 person, except on Sundays, when Fellows with two Com- 

 panions, Persons holding Named Ticket with one Com- 

 panion, and Honorary, Foreign, and Corresponding 

 Members only can be admitted ; or on the days set 

 apart for the Fellows and their friends, viz., Saturdays, 

 May 29 ; June 12 and 26 ; July 10 ; for which days, in 

 addition to their usual privileges, Fellows may, on or 

 before the 8th of May, obtain by personal application or 

 written orders any number of Tickets, not exceeding 

 Twenty at 2s. 6d. each, at the office, 11, Hanover Square ; 

 and any number at 3s. 6d. each at any time, either at the 

 oflfice, or at the Gardens. 



