560 The American Naturalist. [June, 
plates. Besides this Parts 1 and 2 of the 14th volume of the Society’s 
quarto “ Transactions” had been published in 1896. A new edition of 
the List of Animals, containing a list of all the specimens of the verte- 
brated animals that had been received by the Society during the past 
12 years, had been published and issued to the subscribers to the publi- 
cations in November last. The 32d volume of the Zoological Record 
(containing a summary of the work done by zoologists all over the 
world in 1895) edited by Dr. David Sharp, F. R. S., had been also 
published and issued to the subscribers in December last. 
The Library, containing upwards of 20,000 volumes, had been main- 
tained in good order throughout the year, and had been much resorted 
to by working naturalists. A large number of accessions, both by gift 
and purchase, had been incorporated. 
The number of visitors to the Garden in 1896 was 665,004, being 322 
less than the corresponding number in 1895. This slight decrease was 
easily accounted for by the unsettled state of the weather in the latter 
part of the past year. 
The number of animals in the Society’s Gardens on the 31st of De- 
cember last was 2,473, of which 902 were Mammals, 1,132 Birds, and 
439 Reptiles and Batrachians. Amongst the additions made during 
the past year 18 were specially commented upon as of remarkable 
interest, and in most cases new to the Society’s collection. Amongst 
these were a young male Manđtee from the Upper Amazons, a young 
male Klipspringer from N. E. Africa, a young female Gorilla from 
French Congoland, a pair of lettered Aracaris from Para, a young 
Bragga’s Monkey from French Congoland, a Loder’s Gazelle from the 
Western Desert of Egypt, three Ivory Gulls from Spitzbergen, and three 
Franklin’s Gulls from America. A serious loss was occasioned to the 
Society’s menagerie by the sudden death in March last of the male 
Indian Elephant (Jung Pasha), deposited in the Gardens by H. R. H. 
The Prince of Wales, on his return from India in 1876, and for the past 
20 years well known to all visitors to the Gardens. 
A vote of thanks to the Council for their report was then moved by 
Dr. Henry Woodward, F. R.S., seconded by Lord Medway, and carried 
unanimously. 
The report having been adopted the meeting proceeded to elect the 
new members of Council and the officers for the ensuing year. The 
usual ballot having been taken, it was announced that William Bate- 
son, Esq., F. R.S., Col. John Biddulph, Dr. Albert Günther, F.R.5., 
Osbert Salvin, Esq., F. R. S., and Joseph Travers Smith, Esq., had been 
elected into the Council in the place of the retiring members; and that 
