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the Gardens £9,463 2s; admission to the museum £38.7^. Among , the 
penses incurred in the department of the Gardens were salaries and wages to the 
amount of £2,658 8s. 8d.; cost of animals £l,478 14s. lid.; carriage of 
animals £l,040 12s. Id.; food £1,853 12s. 6d.; works, repairs, &c., £1,981 
4s. 5d.; and the museum formation £2,075 3s. 9d.; arrears of the previous and 
current year £810 i invest^ in land £l,100; in cash £l,159 Is. 5d.; and 
capital funded £9,261 12s. 7d. The liabilities consisted of debts £1,382 25. Td., 
and contracts pending £1,453 18s. 8d. The average of the permanent and 
necessary expenditure of the last three years is upward of £10,000, the average 
annual subscriptions, during that period, being £5,200, exclusive of composition 
fees. The money required for the requisite expenses is mainly obtained by 
admissions to the Gardens. The revenue from this fruitful source, as might be 
expected, has varied considerably during the last seven years, the maximum 
having been in 1831, when £11,425 165. was received; the minimum (1835) 
was £7,343 65.; in the past year it amounted to £9,463 25. It was proposed, 
that in future the minimum of the investment fund should be the amount which 
has been obtained from the annual subscriptions, and that all the money received 
for compositions should be invested permanently, with any other sums the Coun¬ 
cil might be able to add. 
Mr. Yarrell then read the report of the Council, announcing that the present 
number of menlbers is 3,050, and that there are 43 candidates fot election. 
During the year 1836, 291 were added, 33 had been removed by the Council, 30 
had resigned, and 56 had died. The number of Corresponding Members is 112 ; 
Foreign Members 24; and Honorary Menibers 10. The finances of this Society, 
always flourishing, have lately been unusually so, as, during the past year, the 
sum received from members had nearly equalled that for admissions to the 
Gardens. The library, which had been particularly attended to by the late 
Secretary, E. T. Bennett, Esq.—whose lamented death we have already 
announced—includes 420 volumes, of which 353 were presented, and 67 pur¬ 
chased ; and it is the intention of the Council to devote an annual sum in future 
for the purpose of enlarging it. The report states, that in the last year 263,392 
persons have visited the Gardens, of which 64,102 were members or their friends; 
10,028 were admitted by ivory tickets, and 189,263 by payment; the sum 
received from the latter is £2,163 more than in the previous year. The mena¬ 
gerie contains 1,025 animals, of which 307 are quadrupeds,^ 794 birds, and 14 
reptiles. The number of visitors to the museUni was 3,668, from whom £38 75. 
was received. The present number of specimens is 6,720, of which 870 are 
quadrupeds, 4,800 birds, 450 reptiles, and 600 fishes. 
We are happy to be able to add, that the reports w'ere most cordially received, 
and that the meeting closed, after the election of officers for the ensuing year, 
