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Thesubjoined Table shows the modein which these visitors 
were distributed through the different months of the past 
year, and gives the corresponding numbers since 1870 :— 
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September... 
October 
November.. 
December.. 
1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. 1874. 
14,250 | 7,717 | 16,958 | 30,460 | 19,351 
9,769 | 14,573 | 21,020 | 10,678 | 15,004 
16,931 | 29,965 | 29,360 | 28,611 | 31,521 
80,901 | 69,637 | 76,712 | 98,993 | 101,258 
62,164 | 95,355 |105,118 | 59,756 | 100,351 
-|109,307 | 66,530 | 67,810 | 127,796 | 80,806 
79,971 | 92,809 | 79,941 | 94,038 | 87,628 
78,037 | 87,296 | 80,212 | 99,654 | 114,703 
58,069 | 61,349 | 70,335 | 74,518 | 69,387 
34,144 | 37,930 | 27,766 | 35,686 | 45,955 
14,207 | 13,605 | 21,788 | 18,599 | 19,525 
15,254 | 19,151 | 51,068 | 34,257 | 21,418 
573,004 | 595,917 | 648,088 | 713,046 |'706,907 
Menagerie. 
3. ZOOLOGICAL LECTURES. 
The Council have determined that the Davis Fund for the 
present year shall again be devoted to popular Lectures on 
subjects connected with the living collection in the Society’s 
These are given in the Lecture-Room in the 
Society’s Gardens, on Thursdays, at 5 p.m., and have been 
arranged as follows :— 
Date. 
1. Thursday, April 15 
Subject. 
Monkeys and their Distri- 
bution. 
Sea-lions ....sseccsseceseee 
Seals and the Walrus .. 
Deer and their allies...... 
| Sheep, Oxen, and Ante- 
lopes. 
Camels and Llamas 
Elephants 
Kangaroos 
Pheasants and their allies 
The locomotion of Ani- 
mals. 
Lecturer. 
P. L. Scuater, Esq., F.R.S. 
J. W. Ciark, Esq., M.A. 
” ” 
Professor GARROD. 
” ” 
mm Professor Fiower, F.R.S. 
Professor Mivart, F.R.S. 
P. L. ScraTer, Esq., F.R.S. 
Dr. Pyse-SmirH. 
The Lectures are free to Fellows of the Society and their 
friends, and to other visitors to the Gardens. 
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