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The ordinary expenditure of the year 1862 amounted 
to £14,699 8s. 7d., every item necessary to keep the 
Society’s establishment in a perfect state of efficiency 
having been placed under this head. ‘The corresponding 
amount for 1861 was £13,197 15s. 2d. The increase on 
the ordinary expenditure of the year, though large, is 
mainly attributable to the considerable augmentation that 
has taken place in the Society’s Menagerie, and in parti- 
cular to the greater number of larger animals (such as 
Elands, Giraffes, Oxen of different species, and of the large 
Carnivora) exhibited in the Gardens, which not only in- 
crease the general cost of maintenance, but require a 
corresponding addition to other expenses connected with 
the Menagerie. 
The extraordinary expenditure of the Society incurred 
during the year 1862 amounted to £3644 8s. 4d., and may 
be divided into six heads, namely— 
Pe ey | 
. Publications... . . . » 121 9 5 
Tabraryis iis Sisis Boh Yop hO9L 4.6 
. Buildings in the Gardens . 2172 1 3 
. Menagerie . oF BGA Pe SOE BD. 52 
. Advertisements . . .. 1514 O 
. Gratuities . . . - - +» 263 0 0 
Do OO tO 
3644 8 4 
The extraordinary expenses connected with the Publica- 
tions, the Library, the Buildings in the Gardens, and the 
Menagerie will all be explained in the several portions of 
the Report connected with these subjects respectively. It 
may suffice to say generally, that. the extraordinary cir- 
cumstances of the year seemed to justify extra expendi- 
ture under each of these heads, as well as the slight increase 
of the sum devoted to advertisements. With regard to the 
final item of the extraordinary expenditure (that of gra- 
tuities), it appeared to the Council that, looking to the ad- 
ditional labour cast upon the Society’s establishment by 
the extraordinary number of visitors to the Gardens, and 
to the precedent established in 1851 (when the same course 
was pursued), there seemed every reason to justify the em- 
ployment of a portion of the large additional receipts in 
recompensing the Society’s servants for the extra duties 
they were called upon to perform. In accordance with 
these views, therefore, the sum of £263 was distributed 
