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(beyond the sum usually devoted to that purpose) very 
desirable. 
The number and importance of the new buildings in 
process of erection in the Gardens rendered it desirable 
that the services of an efficient clerk of the works should 
be secured while they were in progress ; and the salary paid 
to him, at the rate of £3 3s. per week, will also be found 
charged to extraordinary expenditure. 
These items, it will be found, make up the total sum of 
£8710 11s. 7d., being the amount charged to extraordinary 
expenditure under the head of Works and Buildings in 
1863. 
2. MENAGERIE. 
The general state of the Society’s extensive Menagerie 
has continued to remain highly satisfactory since the last 
Anniversary. The census taken on the Ist of January 
last showed a slight but unimportant decrease in the total 
number of vertebrated animals in the Gardens during the 
year; the number on the lst of January, 1863, having 
been 1748, and that on the Ist of January, 1864, 1730. 
Of the latter 567 were Quadrupeds, 1063 Birds, and 100 
Reptiles, forming in the whole by far the largest and most 
complete series of living animals in Europe. 
Although it becomes more difficult every year to find 
additions in the shape of animals that are quite new to 
such a collection, the subjoined list df 12 Mammals, 35 
Birds, 22 Reptiles, and 8 Fishes, that were exhibited alive 
for the first time in the year 1863, will show that the 
Council’s efforts in this direction have also met with some 
success. They have, however, on the present occasion, no 
such strange forms as the Aye-aye or the Kagu to record as 
added to the series for the first time. 
List or Species ExHIBITED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE 
YEAR 1868. 
MAMMALS. 
. Howling Monkey (Mycetes wrsinus, Humb.). 
. Yellow-cheeked Lemur (Lemur xanthomystax, Gray). 
. Allen’s Galago (Galago allenii, Waterh.). 
. Common Porpoise (Phocena communis, Less.). 
. Japanese Bear (Ursus japonicus, Schl.). 
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