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carried out in the Society’s establishment—such as the 
removal of the old wooden fence opposite the Giraffe Yard, 
and the replacement of it by an iron fence, the erection 
of a new set of pheasant-sheds, and the replacing of the 
boiler in the engine-house by a new one of greater dimen- 
sions, and capable of generating a larger amount of steam. 
These minor improvements, which, together with the 
expenses attendant upon them, are all particularized in 
the list of items of extraordinary expenditure incurred 
during the past year, cost altogether the sum of £731 Os.6d., 
and make up the total sum of £5278 17s. 1d., devoted to 
the permanent improvement of the Society’s Garden Es- 
tablishment during the year. 
2. MENAGERIE. 
The most important event connected with the Society’s 
Menagerie that has occurred since the last Anniversary 
has been the successful result of Mr. Thompson’s mission 
to India. The circumstances which induced the Council 
to undertake this expedition have already been detailed in 
the last Report, but it may be convenient to recall them 
to the recollection of the Meeting. 
Several of the Society’s Corresponding Members in 
India—amongst whom may be particularly mentioned 
Mr. A. Grote, the Babu Rajendra Mullick of Calcutta, 
and Mr. W. Dunn of Akyab—having announced that 
they had collections waiting for transmission to the So- 
ciety, amongst which were a pair of young Rhinoceroses, 
and other valuable animals, the Council determined on send- 
ing out to Calcutta, to receive and bring back those prof- 
fered donations, Mr. James Thompson, the Society’s Head 
Keeper, who had previously made the same journey with 
_ such signal success on the occasion of the introduction of 
the Himalayan Pheasants in 1858. They also gladly 
_ embraced the opportunity of sending out to the Babu 
Rajendra Mullick a selection of living animals likely to be 
acceptable to that gentleman, as some return for the many 
valuable donations that he has from time to time made to 
the Society’s Menagerie. At the last Anniversary, the 
Council had the pleasure of announcing that Mr. Thomp- 
son, who had left England in the ‘ Hydaspes’ on the 28th 
of November, 1863, had reached Calcutta with the loss 
of only one individual of the collection under his charge, 
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