REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
April 29, 1871. 
In accordance with the provisions of the Charter, the 
Council have now the pleasure of submitting to the 
Society their forty-second Annual Report. This they pro- 
pose to divide, as usual, 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 CONDITION OF THE SOCIETY. 
1. Stare or THE Rouut or MEMBERS. 
a. Fellows and Annual Subscribers. 
The number of Fellows, Fellows Elect, and Annual 
Subscribers at the close of the year 1870 amounted to 
3021.- Of these there were :— 
Compounders who have paid £20 . . . 128 
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Paying annual contributionsof £2. . . 133 
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Admission-fees unpaid. . . . . . +. 39 
Compositions remitted. . . . . + - 
Annual Subscribers, paying .£3 . . . 18 
