95 
It will be observed that the number of visitors in 1875 
was ereater than that in 1862, the year of the International 
Exhibition, hitherto regarded as exceptional, and has only 
been slightly exceeded on two previous occasions, 
4. ZooLocicaLt 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 
Menagerie. 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. Subject. Lecturer. 
1. Thursday, April 27 | The Society’s Gar-| P. L. Scuarer, Esq., F.R.S. 
dens and their In- 
habitants. 
2s + May 4/Rhinoceroses and 
Tapirs. } Professor FLower, F.R.S. 
oe 7 yy 11! Horses and Zebras. 
4, - » 18 |The Manatee......... Dr. J. Murr, F.Z.S. 
Dy. 7; 4957 OU PEMEHIN, <¢.ucStte Jevsacore Professor Garrop, F.Z.S. 
6. ee Mine PU taus " <ccsecteevanteeee Professor Mivart, F.R.S, 
7. ” »  8)| Homing Pigeons ...| W. B. Tecermeter, Esq., 
F.Z.S. 
8. ” ss bo | Reptiles 5 .aescesdesccs | Professor GARRop, F.Z.S. 
9. “1 », 22) The Beaver and its 
| distribution......... | J. W. Cuark, Esq., F.Z.S. 
10. A 5, 29) The Zoological Sta-| Dr. Carpenter, F.R.S. 
tion at Naples. 
The Lectures are free to Fellows of the Society and their 
friends, and to other visitors to the Gardens. 
5. Prosecror’s DEPARTMENT. 
Prof. A. H. Garrod, the Society’s Prosector, has con- 
tinued his investigations into the causes of death of the 
animals that have died in the Gardens during the past 
year. He reports that the death-list of the year 1875 
indicates that chronic rather than acute diseases were the 
causes of mortality in an unusual percentage of cases, 
which (as it indicates that the incentives to immediate 
disease, such as cold and bad hygienic arrangements, were 
absent) is avery favourable sign. The female Indian Ele- 
phant and the Manatee were the most serious losses, the 
