c. Corresponding Members. 



The following Corresponding Members have been 

 elected to fill vacancies during the past year : — 



Dr. C. Wiinderlich, Director of the Zoological Garden, 

 Cologne. 



Surgeon-Major A. S. G. Jayakar, of Muscat, Arabia. 



Surgeon-Major David Douglas Cunningham, Professor 

 of Anatomy and Physiology in the Medical College, Cal- 

 cutta. 



Heer F. E. Blaauw, of Amsterdam. 



John J. Q,uelch, Esq., of George Town, British Guiana. 



Charles M. Woodford, Esq., of Sydney, New South 

 Wales. 



d. Medallist. 



An addition to our list of Medallists was made in 1889 

 in the person of Dr. Edward Dalzel Dickson, an old 

 and valued Corresponding Member of this Society at 

 Constantinople, in recognition of his zoological collections 

 presented to the Society. 



2. State of the Finances. 



a. Income. 



The Income of the Society during the past year shows 

 many encouraging features of improvement when com- 

 pared with that of 1888, and may be said to have attained 

 a very satisfactory increase. The Garden Receipts, which 

 consist of the sums received on Aveek-days from visitors 

 to the Society's Gardens, reached a total of £14,891 

 16«. %d., being in excess of the corresponding amount 

 received in 1888 by £1607 5*. 6f/, The amount realized 

 by the fees received from the riders on the Elephants and 

 Camels was likewise more by £.38 17^. \d., and the rent 

 received from the Lessees of the Refreshment Depart- 

 ments was larger by the sum of £119 17*. ^d. These 

 increases are due to the greater number of visitors to the 

 Gardens, attributable, no doubt, in great measure to the 

 fine summer weather of 1889. 



On the other hand the sum received for Life Compo- 

 sitions for Fellowships was less by £150. This slight 



