THE ZooLocist—JUNE, 1876. 4949 
Substance of the Report of the Council of the Zoological Society 
of London, read at the Annual General Meeting, April 29th, 
1876. 
Roll of Members.—The aggregate number of Fellows, Fellows 
elect, and Annual Subscribers, at the close of the year 1875, 
amounted to 324]. The corresponding number at the close of 
1874 was 3197, showing an addition during the year 1875 of 44. 
Income.—The income of the Society for the year 1874 was so 
large, and so far beyond all former precedent, that the Council 
could hardly have expected to be able to give a more favourable 
statement for the year 1875. This, however, they have now the 
pleasure of doing. The total receipts from last year have again 
exceeded those of the preceding year, though the amount of excess 
is not very considerable. The income of 1875 amounted on the 
whole to £28,788 Ils. 4d., which was more than that of the 
previous year by the sum of £321 6s. 5d., and is the largest annual 
income ever yet received since the Society’s foundation. Of this 
excess of income it will be remarked that £246 9s. lld. is 
accounted for by the compensation received from the Grand 
Junction Canal Company for the damages caused by the explosion 
on the Regent’s Canal on the 2nd October, 1874. The circum- 
stances of this explosion were explained in the Council’s last 
Annual Report, and the estimated amount of the damages caused 
to the Society was stated. The Council are pleased to be able to 
inform the Fellows that the whole of this amount has been refunded 
to the Society by the Canal Company. But, even when this 
extraordinary item of receipts is deducted, the income of 1875, in 
spite of many unfavourable circumstances, still shows an increase 
over that of 1874 by the sum of £74 lls. 6d. 
The Garden receipts in 1875 amounted to £16,826 15s. 6d., 
being £66 19s. 6d. more than those of tle previous year, and have 
never been exceeded except in 1873. 
Expenditure.—The sum of £31,667 15s. was required for the 
ordinary and extraordinary expenses of the year, and the sum of 
£772 15s. was carried to the Reserve Fund. 
The ordinary expenditure of 1875 exceeded that of 1874 by the 
sum of £1499 10s. 9d. This increase is attributable partly to the 
excessive cost of provisions for the Menagerie, under which head 
£370 17s. 8d. more was expended in 1875 than in the preceding 
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