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It will be noticed that the large amount of £1247 19s. 
is credited to the Society under the head of Garden Sales 
for the year 1861. It may be mentioned that this amount 
is raised from three different sources—by the sale of dupli- 
cates from the stock of living animals (being nearly en- 
tirely such as have been bred in the Gardens)—by the dis- 
posal of the manure, hides, and other refuse from the Garden 
Establishment—and by the sale of the bodies of the animals 
that die in the Menagerie for museums and anatomical col- 
lections. The sum realized under each of these heads 
respectively, in the year 1861, was as follows :— 
Receipts for “ Garden Sales” in 1861. 
Duplicates Sale of dead 
from the a specimens Total 
Society’s | hides &e for — 
Menagerie. 7 | museums. | 
Snis Gi) 6 68 Gi SG sd 2 a 
Arrears, 1858-60 ...... 296 16 1 12 90 13 14 0}. 32219 ..1 
Met SOO E on otac,-cseeaecees 667 11] 144124] 113 66] 92419 11 
| 963 17 2} 157 14] 127 0 6| 1247 19 0 
b. Expenditure. 
The ordinary expenditure of the Society incurred during 
the year 1861, under which head is placed every item 
necessary to preserve the Society’s establishment in its 
present state of efficiency, was £13,337 19s. 2d., being 
£468 13s. 6d. more than the corresponding amount in the 
ata year. The general high prices of many articles, 
gely consumed by the Society, which have lately pre- 
vailed, and the augmentation in the number of the larger 
animals in the Menagerie, will, it is believed, satisfac- 
torily account for this increase. The remaining sum of 
£3980 10s. 7d., whereby the total expenditure of the Society, 
incurred during the year, was raised to £17,318 9s. 9d., 
was entirely devoted to extraordinary expenditure. By 
this term the Council wish to indicate all such additions 
and improvements to the establishment as would, in the 
case of most public companies, be charged against the 
capital account—being strictly of such a nature that they 
might at any time be deferred or left unexecuted, without 
impairing the efficiency of the existing establishment, should 
