194 THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



More accommodation was needed for the oflficial work of 

 the Society than No. 11, Hanover Square afforded. Various 

 expedients were suggested to overcome the difl&culty. That 

 which found most favour was that the premises in Oxford 

 Street, purchased in 1877 and formerly leased to Purdey, the 

 gunmaker, should be utilised and a new meeting-room built. 

 A special committee of the Council was appointed to deal with 

 the question, and they reported that the relief would be only 

 temporary. Consequently these premises were disposed of, 

 and the freehold of No. 3, Hanover Square was purchased for 

 £16,250. The Society took possession in the autumn of 1883; 

 but the house was in a bad condition, and an expenditure of 

 nearly £10,000 was required for repairs and fittings. In 1884 

 the Anthropological Institute became tenants of the Society. 



The Anniversary Meeting of 1884 was held in the new 

 offices, the advantages of which were appreciated by the 

 Fellows present. It was officially stated that when No. 11, 

 Hanover Square was taken in 1843, the income of the Society 

 was £9,137,"^ and when the occupancy terminated, in 1883, 

 it had more than trebled, being £28,966. In 1885 a Scientific 

 Meeting here was the subject of a clever sketch in Punch. 



The offices of the Prosector were repaired and enlarged in 

 1881, and the increased accommodation was soon utilised. 

 A long- vacation class of four students from Cambridge worked 

 there on the comparative anatomy of the Mammalia, under the 

 supervision of Mr. Lister, and the Pathological Society formed 

 a committee for the study of comparative pathology in the 

 Gardens. In view of what was advanced on p. 127 as to the 

 original intention of the Council in establishing the prosector- 

 ship, the following remarks in their Keport for 1881 on the 

 work of the Pathological Committee are of interest: 



Their investigations promise to be of great scientific interest and value, 

 not only to pathologists, but also to the officers of the Society, as affording- 

 better indications than have hitherto been obtained of the various morbid 

 causes affecting the animals in the Society's menagerie. 



♦ It fell to £7,765 m 1847, the last year of Ogilby's secretaryship. In 1859, 

 ■when W. D. Mitchell, the first paid secretary, resigned, it stood at £14,034, and in 

 1902, the last year of Dr. Sclater's secretaryship, at £29,077. Thus, the first paid 

 Secretary nearly, and the second more than, doubled the income of the Society during^ 

 their terms of office. It would be pleasant if this progression were continued. 



