Report, 1846. 



41 



" The limits of a report prevent your Council from 

 dwelling at length on this important subject, but they 

 would quote the words of an eminent writer — 'Where 

 the taste for Zoological inquiry is diffused, there is a high 

 standard of general sentiment and education ; and that 

 when such pursuits are neglected, it is because the public 

 mind is not elevated to the standard at which the nature 

 and beauty of such inquiries can be properly appreciated ' ; 

 and he adds, ' There is no mode of amusement at once 

 so popular, attractive, instructive, and innocent, as is 

 supplied by a Zoological Garden.' 



' Your Council annex to this report tables that will 

 supply an accurate view of the state of the Society during 

 the past year ; that it is not one of triumphant success 

 they deeply regret to acknowledge. They have, how- 

 ever, creditably maintained the Society through the 

 year. They have added to its permanent property, 

 increased its attraction and promoted its stability ; they 

 leave to their successors the task and duty of carrying 

 out their principles and plans commenced. That, how- 

 ever, your Society is to continue to be supported, there 

 is public spirit and sufficient zeal for knowledge among 

 the educated classes of this metropolis to preserve to the 

 country an Institution which it would have been a disgrace 

 never to have originated, still more, being once established, 

 to permit to languish or to fall." 



Statement of the Accounts of the Zoological Society 

 for the Year ending May 1st, 1846 : — 



INCOME. 



Admission to the Gardens, viz. 



en 



c 



— 2 "~ 



S'JS T 



O • - c^i 



E~" £ """ 



< 



3,251 free 



357 at 2/6 .. 



49 at 1/3 .. 



13,722 at 6d. .. 



2,510 at 3d. .. 



92,522 at Id. .. 



Members' Subscriptions 



Subscribers' Subscriptions 



Admission fees 



Donations... 



Animals sold 



Incidental sundry receipts ... 



44 12 

 3 1 



343 

 31 



385 10 



s. d. 



1429 9 3 



