CONTENTS. 



Page 

 I. General Condition of the Society ^5 



1. State of the Roll of Members '*» 



a. Fellows and ;innual Subscribers 3 



h. Honorary, Foreign, and Corresponding Members 4 



c. Medallists 5 



2. State of the Finances 5 



a. Income 5 



J). Expenditure 7 



c. Assets and Liabilities 8 



tl. General State of the Finances 10 



3. Purchase of Freehold Premises 10 



II. Office, 11 Hanover Square 11 



1. Scientific Meetings 11 



2. Scientific Publications 12 



3. Library 13 



III. Gardens, Ilcgcnt's Park 21 



1. Buildings and Works 21 



2. Staff 23 



3. Visitors 23 



4. Zoological Lectures 25 



5. Picture Gallery 25 



G. Prosector's Department 25 



7. Menagerie 2() 



List of Animals which have been bred in the Gardens 

 of the Society betAveen the 1st of January 1877 

 and the 1st of January 1878 27 



List of Species new to the Eevised Catalogue of 

 Vertebrates exhibited in the Society's Gardens in 

 the year 1877 2S 



List of Donors and Donations 42 



Conclusion ;V) 



