REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 
April 29, 1864, 
In accordance with the provisions of the Charter, the 
Council have now the pleasure of submitting to the 
Society their Thirty-fifth Annual Report. This, in con- 
formity with former precedents, they propose to divide 
into three heads, the first of which will relate to the general 
affairs of the Society, the second to the operations carried 
on at the Office in Hanover Square, and the last to the 
state of the Gardens and Menagerie in the Regent’s Park, 
I, GENERAL ESTABLISHMENT. 
1. Orpinary Memsers, FeLtLows, AND ANNUAL 
SUBSCRIBERS. 
The number of Fellows, Fellows Elect, and Annual 
Subscribers at the present time amounts to 1754. Of 
these there are— 
Compounders, who haye paid £20. . . 185 
Ditto AiO. £S0s..i0 Af gt ete |, 868 
Paying annual contributions of £2. . . 232 
Ditto ditto 3h! » y, | 887 
Dormant —.-.. . Raney acre ir 42 
Admission-fees unpaid. . . - « + + 27 
Ditto remitted ...,+ «+e 14 
Annual Subscribers, paying £3 . . - . 54 
1754 
The number of Fellows elected since the last Anniver- 
sary has been 170; of Annual Subscribers 15 ; and two 
Fellows have been re-admitted under the provisions of the 
By-Laws, making a total addition of 187 Members to the 
roll of the Society since the Anniversary in 1863, 
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