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The increase of the ordinary expenditure for 1872, 
which, as will be seen, amounted on the whole to £1956, is 
chiefly attributable to the larger amounts spent under the 
heads of “ Salaries,” “ Provisions,” « Works,” and “ Pub- 
lications.” 
As regards the “Salaries,” the increase is mainly due to 
the reappointment of a Prosector at the commencement of 
the year 1872, and to the placing of the Superintendent’s 
Assistant on the permanent staff. Augmentations have 
also been made in the salaries of some of the other officers. 
“ Provisions,” the Council fear, are, looking to the 
general rise of prices, and to the augmentation of the 
number of larger animals in the Collection, likely to be 
always an increasing item in the Society’s expenditure. 
Nearly 200 loads of hay are annually consumed in the 
Gardens ; and the high price of this article during the past 
year told ‘heavily against the Society. 
Under the head of « Works,” the increase of ordinary 
payments was mainly caused by an unusually large ex- 
penditure on the paths and walks in the Gardens. Nearly 
‘the whole of these thoroughfares have been picked up 
and relaid in a superior manner during the last two years, 
and are consequently, as the Council believe, generally in 
a better condition than they have been for some time past. 
The scientific publications of 1872, as will be shown in 
a subsequent part of the Report, were more numerous and 
more costly than usual, and caused a considerable, expen- 
diture. But the Council believe that the Fellows will agree 
with them in considering that no expense should be spared 
necessary to keep up the efficiency of this branch of the 
Society’s undertakings, being that upon which the fame of 
the Society as a scientific body is mainly based. 
The augmentation of these four items, as above ex- 
plained, accounts for the greater portion of the increase of 
ordinary expenditure. 
The extraordinary expenditure of 1872 consisted of the 
following particulars :— 
Be £ Ss. d. 
New works in the Gardens . . . 2238 14 10 
Special acquisition for the Menagerie 1250 0 -0 
New Library and Menagerie Cata- 
logues }2., TL,E%5 p...-/..mmal . Sf | 8 22 
£3576 3 ¥Y 
