LIABILITIES. 



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



For the Gardens, say 182 5 5 



„ Office, say Ifi? 10 



349 15 5 



Bills, &e., estimated at : — 



For the Gardens, say 780 Ifi 10 



Office, say 2,319 13 7 



3,109 10 5 



Messrs. Drummond, Mortgage Debt 12,000 



;£15,459 5 10 



II. OFFICE, 3 Hanover Square. 

 L New Premises. 



At the Anniversary Meeting last year the Council 

 announced that they had appointed a special sub-com- 

 mittee to consider how the Oxford-Street premises, at 

 the back of the Society's former Offices, could be most 

 conveniently utilized. The most pressing wants of the 

 Society at that period were, as announced in previous 

 Reports, a more convenient meeting-room and better 

 accommodation for the Society's zoological library, which 

 is in constant use by working naturalists. After Messrs. 

 Purdey had linally given up the Oxford-Street premises, 

 and a thorough survey could be made, it was found that 

 the above-mentioned requirements could not be efficiently 

 met by the utilization of part of the Oxford-Street pre- 

 mises, as had previously been expected would be the case. 

 It was manifest that the width available was not sufficient 

 for a convenient meeting-room, that there would be a diffi- 

 culty in the erection of such a room, on account of inter- 

 ference with the lights in the adjoining houses, and tliat 

 the necessary space for the proper accommodation of the 

 Society's library could not be obtained in this manner. 

 After much deliberation it was finally decided that the 

 proposed addition to the Society's old premises on the 

 back would be unsatisfactory in its character and would 

 be merely temporary in its nature, without any prospect 

 of affording permanent escape from the embarrassments 

 occasioned by restricted space. It was resolved, therefore, 

 to be from every point of view more advisable to ascertain 

 whether a better site for the Society's future operations 

 could not be obtained in the same neighbourhood. 



The freehold house, No. 3 Hanover Square, where we 



