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announce that a still greater augmentation in the total 
amount of Receipts has taken place. 
The gross income of the Society during the past year 
from every quarter amounted to £16,863 18s. 11d., which, 
added to the sum of £1784 4s. 9d. (the balance carried 
over to the Society’s credit from the year 1859), made a 
total amount to be placed under the head of Income for 
1860 of no less than £18,648 3s. 8d. On few previous 
occasions since the foundation of the Society in 1825 has 
the income received during the twelvemonth amounted to 
so large a sum. Indeed, if the two exceptional years of 
the Great Exhibition and of the first arrival of the Giraffes 
in this country be placed aside, it will be seen by the sub- 
joined Table that there are only three out of the thirty- 
three remaining years that present a more favourable 
aspect as regards Income. 
Income of the Zoological Society of London. 
£ a 
*I851 2... 26,453 1829 .... 14,030 
+1836 ..... 19,118 1837 .... 13,954 
1831 .....17,559 1839..... 13,4297 
1853 .....17,508 1852 .... 12,803 
1854 .... 16,901 / 1840 .... 12,732 
1860 ....16,864 | 1841) ..-<4,, 21,612 
1834 .... 16,829 | 1828 .... 11,512 
1835 .... 16,030 =| 1842 .... 10,088 
1830 .... 15,955 1843 ......... 9,187 
1832 .... 15,489 1845 .... 8,831 
1856 .... 15,280 1849 ..,. 8,771 
1859 .... 15,195 1844 .... 8,659 
1850 .... 14,957 1846 .... 8,305 
1833 .... 14,839 1848 .... 8,165 
1857... layge2 1887. o..e 1,165 
1838 .... 14,090 1827. oe 4,078 
1855 .... 14,089 1825-6 .. 1,829 
1858 .... 14,034 
Another subject of congratulation is that this large 
increase in the amount of receipts is due not to any sudden 
and unexpected addition made to one head of income, but 
to the steady augmentation of every branch of it. On 
examining the twelve different heads under which the 
* Year of the Great Exhibition. - First exhibition of the Giraffes, 
