led 
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The ordinary expenditure of 1873 shows a diminution 
of £603 6s. 5d. as compared with that of 1872, notwith- 
standing the larger amount of the arrears of the previous 
year. 
The extraordinary expenditure of 1873 consisted of the 
¥ 
following items:— ~ 
£ Ss 0d 
i. New buildings in the Gardens . . . 4179 2 1 
ii. New Menagerie Catalogue. . . . . 16614 6 
iii. Purchase of a Sumatran Rhinoceros . 600 0 O 
£4945 16 7 
Concerning-these full particulars will be given under 
the head of the report relating to the Society’s Gardens. 
c. Davis Trust-fund. 
As mentioned in several preceding Reports, the Society 
in 1870 received a legacy of £2000, left to them by the 
late Alfred Davis, Esq., F.Z.S. a 
The following were the exact terms of Mr. Davis’s 
bequest :— 
“To the Zoological Society of London the sum of Two 
Thousand pounds, such sum to forma Perpetual Fund, the 
Income from which is to be applied to, or to 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.” 
The interest of the Davis Bequest amounted in 1873 
to £58 1ls. 10d. This sum the Council, after considering 
various applications for it, again determined to devote to the 
use of the “Zoological Record Association,” for assistance 
in the publication of the ‘Zoological Record’ for 1873. 
As regards the proposed application of this fund for the 
present year, details are given in a subsequent part of the 
Report. : 
d. Reserve Funds. 
The Society’s Reserve Fund consists of a sum of £8000 
_ 3 per Cents Reduced. 
‘The Council, however, as announced in their last Report, 
have decided that, in the present flourishing state of the 
