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6. Menagerie. 

 a. Sale of the male African Elephant. 



The sale of the large male African elephant '' Jumbo " 

 was an event connected with the Menagerie in 1882^ which, 

 as it excited great public attention to the Society's affairs, 

 and had, consequently, a very beneficial effect on the 

 Garden-receipts, cannot pass unalluded to in the present 

 Report. 



It was not surprising to the Council that so general a 

 regret should have been expressed by visitors to the gar- 

 dens and the public generally at the prospect of losing the 

 great African elephant. No one shared in this regret more 

 than the members of the Council, and they Avould not have 

 consented to part with the animal unless satisfactory 

 reasons for so doing had been placed before them by the 

 responsible executive of the gardens. 



b. Additions to the Menagerie in 1882. 



The number of animals belonging to the first three 

 classes of Vertebrates living in the Society's Menagerie at 

 the close of 1882 was 2.355. The corresponding number 

 on the 31st of December, 1881, was 2294, as will be seen 

 by the subjoined Table : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Mena- 

 gerie in 1882 was 1123, of" which 772 were acquired by 

 presentation, 402 by purchase, 113 were bred in the 

 Gai'dens, 111 were received on deposit, and 25 obtained 

 in exchange. 



The mode in which these figures compare with those of 

 previous years is shown in the subjoined table: — 



