104 THE ZOOLOOIGAL SOCIETY. 



consented to accept the vacant office, and he continued to take an 

 active part in the management of the Institution until the state of his 

 health compelled him to reside at Knowsley during the greater part of 

 the year. 



At the same meeting the Secretary's salary was raised to 

 £500 a year — "to include travelling and other incidental 

 expenses." He held office till the Anniversary in 1859, when 

 he retired in order to take up the appointment of Director 

 of the Jardin d'Acclimatation, then just founded at Paris. In 

 consideration of his services to the Society the Council pre- 

 sented him with a gratuity of £500, and put it on record 

 that " the present prosperous and satisfactory position of the 

 Society was chiefly, if not entirely, owing to the great ability 

 and zeal of Mr. Mitchell." For the seven years previous to 

 his appointment in 1847 the average number of visitors to 

 the Gardens had been 111,500, and the income £9,199 ; for 

 the seven years ending December 31, 1858, the respective 

 averages rose to 350,620 and £15,062. Mr. Philip Lutley 

 Sclater, who had served on the Council for two years, was 

 elected to the post thus rendered vacant. Mitchell died soon 

 after having entered on his new duties. 



Yarrell died on September 1, 1856, and though there is 

 no official tribute to his memory in the Council's Report, 

 enough of his work has been here chronicled to show that 

 he played no unimportant part in the foundation and manage- 

 ment of the Society. One need only look at the Transactions 

 of the Linnean Society to see how much of his work at the 

 Zoological Club appeared therein, and some of it was after- 

 wards amplified for the scientific meetings of the Zoological 

 Society, of which he was an original member. He served on 

 the Council almost uninterruptedly from 1831 till his death, 

 and was Vice-President for two terms — 1839-44 and 1845-51. 

 He owed this appointment to Lord Derby, with whom he had 

 been closely associated in the management of the Farm. 



At the Gardens Mr. Alexander Miller, who had been 

 Superintendent since 1829, was pensioned in 1852 ; he was 

 succeeded by Mr. John Thompson, at whose death in 1859 

 Mr. Abraham Dee Bartlett was appointed. In the same year 

 James Thomson succeeded Hunt as head-keeper. 



