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the cost of two new water-mains, which were laid down 
during the past summer. One of these is a new supply- 
main from the engine in the North Gardens to the Reser- 
voir at the extreme end of the South Gardens. Before 
this was made the supply from the Engine to the Reservoir 
was effected by the same main as the delivery to the Gardens, 
which produced many inconveniences. The second main was 
laid chiefly for the purpose of giving a direct delivery from 
the Reservoir to the Hippopotamus-pond, and was found 
necessary in consequence of the length of time required to 
fill that large basin by the old main. 
Besides these items of a special expenditure, the sum of 
£2712 11s. 3d. was devoted to the ordinary maintenance 
and repair of the buildings in the Gardens during the year 
1871. ; 
9. Prosector’s DEPARTMENT. 
Dr. James Murie, the Society’s Prosector appointed in 
1865, having tendered his resignation in March 1870 on 
the ground of ill-health, the Council thought it advisable 
to request him to continue nominally in his post, without 
requiring of him any of the ordinary duties of the office, 
for a further period of six months, in order to enable him 
to complete, ready for publication, if his state of health 
should permit, certain zoological memoirs intended for the 
Society’s ‘ Transactions,’ and containing the results of his 
examination of some important animals. This period 
having expired in the autumn of 1870, and Dr. Murie’s 
memoirs ‘having been completed, the Council thought it 
desirable to make a new appointment to the vacant Office, 
and, on the recommendation of the Zootomical Committee, 
have nominated Mr. Alfred Henry Garrod, B.A., Scholar 
of St. John’s College, Cambridge, to the post. 
Mr. Garrod entered upon his duties on the Ist of 
January of the present year. 
3. VISITORS. 
The total number of visitors to the Society’s Gardens 
during the year 1871 was 595,917, being 22,913 more 
than the corresponding number in 1870, as will be seen 
by the following Table :— 
