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The following is a statement of the payments in 1874 
charged to extraordinary expenditure :— 
Extraordinary Expenditure paid in 1874. 
New Buitpines anp Works :— Fn inks se! LS ar) 
(1) Completion of Refreshment Rooms ... 9716 0 
(2) New Falcons’ Aviary .......sc..ssceeeees 6385 8 1 
(3) Repairing the damage caused by the 
Gunpowder Explosion on the Canal 116 8 3 
(4) Enlargement of the South Lodge ...... 310 16 9 
(5) Fitting-up new Lecture Room ......... 125 8 6 
ae 1285 17 7 
SrEcrAL ACQUISITIONS FOR THE MENAGERIE :— 
Sondaic Rhinoceros ....cesessecsseseseeeeeeeee 800 0 0 
Threo ‘Giraffes .........ccesesersececceeeenceaeces 700 0 0 
1500 0 0 
NEW MENAGERIE CATALOGUE ...cccsesecsecssseeeecseeeeeeeenneceeeees 3.0 0 
GRANT TO THE ZOOLOGICAL STATION, NAPLES ......0seseceeeeeeees 100 0 0 
£2888 17 7 
As regards the former of these items, explanations 
will be given in a subsequent part of the Report. The 
sum of £100 was granted by the Council in aid of Dr. 
Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples, first, in view of 
the benefits likely to arise to zoological science from its 
establishment, and, secondly, in the expectation that valu- 
able acquisitions to the Society’s Fish-house (which the 
Council hope shortly to see rebuilt on a much more ex- 
tended scale) would ultimately be received by means of 
this Institution if it were once set on a permanent footing. 
c. Reserve Fund. 
In accordance with the resolution passed by the Council 
on March 5, 1873, as notified in the last Report, the 
Reserve Fund of the Society has been augmented in 1874, 
by the re-investment of the Dividends accruing from it, 
amounting to the sum of £247 9s. 9d., and also by the 
investment of the additional sum of £500 on the Ist of 
July last. These operations have raised the present 
amount of the Reserve Fund to the sum of £8812 16s. 9d. 
Reduced 3 per Cents. . 
