The Auditors ai'e sorry to have to i-eport that the income 

 of the Society has suffered some diminution during the past 

 year. The Admissions to the Gardens have yielded £673 

 less than in the previous year. The severity of last winter 

 and the bad weather throughout the greater part of the year 

 will, in a measure, account for this. But, notwithstanding 

 this drawback, the Expenditure has been kept well within the 

 Income ; the only items of expenditure which appear some- 

 what large are those under the heads of " Menagerie ^^ and 

 " Publications." 



It should be remembered that in the statement of Assets 

 no account of the most valuable property of the Society 

 (namely, its collection of Animals and its extensive Library) 

 has been entered. 



The Auditors have much pleasure in expressing their satis- 

 faction with the manner in which the Books have been placed 

 before them by Mr. Barrow, the Society's Accountant. 



John Biddulph. 

 Alfred E. Craven. 

 Herbert Druce. 

 Charles H. Gatty. 

 w. h. hudleston. 



11 Hanover Square, W. 



February 23, 1882. 



i'RE3I:]::TED 

 2 4 APR. 1303 





