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The Auditors beg to call the attention of the Society to 
the very large increase of the Receipts shown in the balance- 
sheet now before them, arising from Admission Fees, Annual 
Subscriptions, Compositions, and Admissions to the Gardens. 
The number of Fellows elected during the past twelve 
months exceeds by one hundred the number admitted during 
the previous year, when the large access of new Members 
was rightly considered a subject of congratulation. Again, 
although the very fine summer may in part account for 
upwards of half million persons having visited the Gardens 
during the year 1864, yet this, in conjunction with the above- 
mentioned facts, clearly proves the increasing public interest 
taken in the objects of the Society. The Committee also re- 
mark that the receipts of the past twelve months exceed those 
of every other year, except 1851 and 1862, when the General 
Exhibitions took place. Under these circumstances the 
Committee feel perfectly satisfied as to the present position 
and future prospects of the Zoological Society, and warmly 
congratulate the Fellows thereupon. 
In concluding their report, the Auditors beg to assure the 
Society that the performance of their duties has been ren- 
dered comparatively easy by the very clear and accurate 
manner in which the accounts have been arranged and laid 
before them by the Society’s excellent Accountant Mr. Leigh. 
EDW. GREENAWAY. 
WILLIAM MARTYN. 
BENJAMIN LEADBEATER. 
JAMES TENNANT. 
ROBERT LOW. 
EDWARD JOHNSTONE. 
THOMAS S§. G. KIRKPATRICK. 
11 Hanover Square, 
February 20; 1865. 
Ta ad th eee 
Joot. Mei. 
22 MAY. (908 
