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made h>- Ihe male birds. 1 Polar liears were born on 20th June, 
but died after bcinj^ fed artilically for two days. 
1 he health of the animals has been good, the principal losses 
having been one brown Ix'ar, (which Iiad been in the Gardens over 
twenty years), one old female Ostrich, one Sontli American Tapir, 
and one Indian i^vthoii. 
I he Director piircliased at Ilagenbeck's. in Hamburg, the fol¬ 
lowing animals: 1 Crayshaw’s Zebra, I Hua C<mstrictor, 1 pair Red 
River Hogs. 1 ])air \uscachas, I pair IVircupines, 1 pair Ihunas, 1 
pair Coypn Rats, I pair Coatis, and *2 Iguanas, which have already 
arrived. At Cairo Zoological Gardens he j)urchased by exchange:— 
1 pair Dorcas (Gazelles, 4 Black hemurs, 1 Ring-lailcd Lemur, 1 pair 
Pacas and 2 Cliolmey ]*artridges. 
A jjair of hllands were, at the request of the Director, kindly 
presented to the Society by His (irace the Duke of Bedford from 
his private collection at Woburn Abbey. 
Satisfactory arrangements were made at Port Said with the 
Agent for the Messageries Maritinies Co. for shipping animals to 
Mclhourne. 
The Council would again express its appreciation of the loyal 
and eflicient way in which the Director and the whole staff of em¬ 
ployees liavc done their duty faithfully and well during the year, 
and would especially recognise the satisfactory work of Mr. P: God¬ 
frey, the accountant, who took the ])lace of the Director during liis 
visit tf) P-urope. 
The Animal Report and Balance-Sheet were then read, as well 
as the Director's Report on his recent visit to ICurope and America, 
l^lr. F. R. Godfrey moved tliat they be adopted, and in doing so 
stated that it gave him pleasure in mentioning that the Society, due 
to careful management, was now in a better position financially than 
it liad been for the jiast twenty years, and not only so, but it never 
had a finer collection of animals than were now on view. 
The receipts for the past year, due to the abuunually hot 
weatlicr during Christmas and New Year holidays, were slightly 
below last year's, but the cxpen<Htuie lias been considerably less, so 
that the Society was in a better position this year than last. He 
also considered that the success of tlic trip of the i)irector to the 
various Zoological (hardens of the world had lieen fully established 
and that he strongly supported Ihe idea of the trip from the first, as 
