6 



Assets and Liabilities of the Society on December 31, 18S3. 



ASSETS. 



£ s. d. 



Animals in the Menagerie in the Regent's Park 21,629 5 



Books in the Library at Hanover Square 15,000 



Unsold Publications 10,900 



Freehold Premises 25,000 



Cost of £1,900 London and South- Western Railway New 4 per 



cent. Preference Stock (Dayis' Trust Fund) 1,93S 9 6 



Deposit Account, London and County Bank 2,500 



Cash at the Bankers (Messrs. Drummonds) 1,391 18 4 



Arrears considered good : — £ s. d. 



Annual Subscriptions 105 



Ivory Tickets 3 3 



Publication Sales 135 6 3 



Garden Sales 113 13 4 



Kent for Refreshment Rooms 128 10 



Rent for Freehold Premises 75 



560 12 7 



£78,920 6 5 



LIABILITIES. 



Rent and Taxes unpaid : — £ s. d. £ s. d. 



For the Gardens, say 235 13 11 



Office, say 27 7 



2G2 14 6 



Bills, &c., estimated at : — 



For the Gardens, say 962 5 6 



Office, say 209 12 7 



1,171 18 1 



Messrs. Drummonds, Mortgage Debt 5,000 



Balance of Contract on Reptile House 2,180 



Hot-water Apparatus for ditto 242 



£8,856 12 



