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The total Income of the Society during the last past ten 
years, 1861 to 1870, was as follows :— 
£ £ 
16) Naga abate 16,072 AGG Fe ost. 24,379 
6213) AA *27,397 MAGEE tes. 25,042 
Tere pees ss 20,284 Ls 1 sauce age 24,958 
TIGL OO e 21,713 SRO! HEY Eb. 22,768 
VBEHO* SS: _ 23,457 1S 7B 296 23,257 
giving an average annual Income of £22,437, omitting 
the exceptional Exhibition year. 
It thus appears that the average annual Income of the 
ten last past years has exceeded the average of the ten years 
immediately preceding them by the sum of £7160. 
To the Income received during the year 1870 (£23,257 
13s. 9d.) must be added the balance carried over from 
the previous year (£1623 3s. 6d.), and the amount of a 
temporary loan for one month, borrowed-of the Society’s 
Bankers in December last, and since paid off (£1500). 
This raised the total sum available for the expenditure of 
the year 1870 to £26,380 17s. 3d. 
But the Society’s receipts during the year 1870 were 
further increased by a legacy of £2000, left to them by the 
late Alfred Davis, Esq., F.Z.S. 
; The following are the exact terms of Mr. Davis’s 
bequest :— 
“To the Zoological Society of London the sum of Two 
Thousand pounds, such sum to form a Perpetual Fund, 
the Income from which is to be applied to, or the creation 
of Annual Prizes, or any other purpose which may seem 
to the Council or governing body of the Society most con- 
ducive to its interests.” 
After payment of the Legacy Duty of 10 per cent., the 
sum handed over to the Society by Mr. Davis’s executors, 
in respect of this Legacy, was £1800. This was imme- 
diately invested by the Council in the purchase of the sum 
of £1994 9s. 2d. Consols. 
b. Expenditure. 
The sum of £26,380 17s. 3d., which, as stated above, 
was available for the Expenditure of 1870, was disposed of 
in the followmg manner. The sum of £21,364 12s, 10d. 
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