Report, 1849. 



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but as it appears likely that your collection may be made 

 more useful than ever in connection with schools of 

 design, now about to be established, it may be observed 

 that the value of living forms as models cannot be too 

 highly estimated. It is necessary for the artists to study 

 the habits of animals before he can represent their 

 natural character with fidelity, and it would not be 

 difficult to point out many ludicrous and disgraceful 

 failures, even in the higher branches of art, arising from 

 deficiency in this particular knowledge. 



In conclusion, your Council would urge on you in- 

 creased exertion to induce persons to join the Society, to 

 visit the Gardens more frequently, and in speaking of 

 them to do so from actual observation. 



Admission This Year. 



Total 



64,328 



Account from 1st May, 1848, to 1st May, 1849. 



