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exceeded the average. Experience in such cases has 
shown that such periods of unusual increase are ordinarily 
followed by corresponding intervals of reduction. It is 
with no small pleasure, therefore, that the Council are able 
to report that in the present instance nothing of the sort is 
perceptible. The Income of this Society in the year 1863 
reached a total of £20,284 12s. 11d., being the largest sum 
ever received by the Society in any one year, except the 
two Exhibition years, as the following Table will show:— 
Income of the Zoological Society of London. 
£ | £ 
*1862 .... 27,397 1855 .... 14,089 
*1851 .... 26,453 1858 .... 14,034 
1863 .-.. 20,284 1829 .... 14,030 
$1836 .... 19,118 1837 .... 13,954 
1831 ,..0¢ 17,559 W839 13,427 
1853 ...,, 17,508 1852, <. 12/803 
1854 .... 16,901 PRRrsan te Tagao 
1860 .... 16,864 ee PGCE US >: SOUT FOS 
1834 .... 16,829 | 1828 «4. 11,512 
1861 .... 16,072 1842 .... 10,088 
1635 3.< 5 +).16,030 1843 .... 9,137 
1830 .... 15,955 | 1845 .... 8,831 
1832 .... 15,489 teAG Ts. <2 98.771 
1856 .... 15;280 p= 77844 =... 8,659 
1859 .... 15,195 | 1846 ..,: 8,305 
1850 .... 14,957 | 1848 .... 8,165 
1833 .... 14,839 1847..2;% 7,765 
1857... «14,822 1827...» 4,078 
1838 .... 14,090 1825-6 .. 1,829 
* Two Exhibition years. + First Exhibition of the Giraffes. 
The average Income of the three years preceding 1862 
was rather more than £16,000, so that the year 1863—so 
far from exhibiting any decrease, as might have been 
reasonably expected—gives a solid increase of upwards of 
£4000 when compared with the average income of the 
three ordinary years which preceded it. 
Of the items which have contributed to make up this in- 
crease, the most noticeable are that of Annual Subscriptions, 
which show an increase of £335 when compared with 
1862 ; that of Compositions in lieu of Annual Subscrip- 
