II. OFFICE, 3 Hanover Square. 

 1. New Premises. 



As mentioned above, the remaining liabilities on the 

 Society's New House (except the small unsettled claim 

 referred to) were discharged in 1884, by the payment of 

 £6855 19s. Id. on account of the works, and of £450 15s. 

 3d., the amount of the legal expenses connected with the 

 sale of the former House and the purchase of the New 

 House. There remains, therefore, only the mortgage debt 

 of £11,000, which, as arranged by the terms of agreement, 

 will be paid off by annual instalments of £1000 on the 

 1st of June in every year. 



Although the necessary expenditure on New Premises 

 has been very heavy, few Fellows acquainted with the 

 circumstances of the case will, as the Council believe, 

 hesitate to allow that the sums thus expended (amounting 

 altogether, inclusive of the cost of fittings, to about £12,600) 

 have been well and wisely invested. The Society are now 

 owners of a set of Offices which, for convenience of situa- 

 tion and arrangement, are in every respect adapted to 

 their requirements, and are likely to remain so for many 

 years. The valuable Zoological Library is also admirably 

 housed and arranged, and there is ample space for its 

 future extension. The large stock of publications has 

 been removed from its inconvenient storage in the Gardens 

 into the convenient receptacles now provided for it, and 

 has been thoroughly arranged and placed in order. 



Three sets of rooms in the New House are for the present 

 not required for the Society's purposes, and when fully 

 occupied by kindred Societies or otherwise, will, it is esti- 

 mated, produce a rental of £350 per annum. Of these, two 

 sets have been already let to permanent tenants, and the 

 third set, it is anticipated, will not long remain vacant. 



2. Scientific Meetings. 



To the thirteen meetings for the despatch of scientific 

 business held in the Society's Rooms in Hanover Square 

 in 1884, 119 communications were made. Of these, 92 

 were from Fellows, 2 from Foreign Members, and 1 1 from 

 Corresponding Members of the Society. The remaining 

 li papers were from individuals not belonging to the 

 Society, and were communicated to it by the Secretary 



