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conclusion, would call your attention to the Treasurer's 

 account, which shows that notwithstanding the difficulties 

 they had to contend with the Society is now, in a pecuniary 

 point of view, in a much hetter state than it was twelve 

 months since. With increased numbers and much 

 diminished debt and expenditure they feel justified in 

 what they have done, and confidence in submitting this 

 their Report ; and in doing so urge on you most strongly 

 your co-operation with the next Council by paying in at 

 once your subscriptions, of which about three hundred 

 pounds still remains due, a sum not only sufficient to 

 discharge the current debts of the Society but to purchase 

 many new animals. 



" Since the commencement of this year sixty-five 

 individuals, as life members, ordinary memhers, and 

 garden subscribers, have been enrolled in the hooks of 

 the Society. 



' Twenty-nine thousand, one hundred and sixty-two 

 people visited the Gardens last year. There are, in the 

 collection, seventy-two quadrupeds and one hundred and 

 eleven birds." 



Having concluded reading the report, Mr. Ball moved 

 that it be adopted, printed, and circulated. 



Acheson Lyle, Esq., Second Remembrancer, seconded 

 the motion, and the report was unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Ball next read the statement of the accounts for 

 the past year, from which it appears the debts due by the 

 Society are less this year than they were at the close of 

 the preceding year, and that the debts due to the Society 

 exceed in amount those remaining unpaid at the 

 termination of the antecedent year. 



