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of stock above mentioned, is only awaiting the call 
of the Finance Committee to be turned into 
the treasury. The Board, for the convenience of 
subscribers to the stock, making the payments 
quarterly. 
2. Menagerie. 
The present Garden had scarcely been enclosed, 
before numerous offers of live specimens for the 
collection of the Society were made and accepted, 
although, in some instances, arrangements had to 
be very hurriedly made for receiving them, and 
since that time, many more have arrived, a list of 
which, together with those purchased by the Society, 
is herewith attached. 
The Society has now in its Garden or pur- 
chased, and on their way here: 
Quadrupeds, . . . . . . • 131 
Birds, 674 
Reptiles, . 6 
The Superintendent, Mr. Frank J. Thompson, 
has lately been in Australia for the Society, where 
he has obtained an extensive collection of the 
fauna of that country, which will be shipped on 
the 4th of next month, and will reach here about 
the middle of June. He is now in India for 
the same purpose, and will return in the Sum- 
mer with a collection from that part of the 
world. The means of the Society have been so 
limited that his opportunities are restricted, but 
until the finances of the Society improve the 
chief attraction of its Garden, must consist in 
