covered by receipts of £25,968. The form in which these moneys were
received is perhaps less unusual than the items of expenditure; but it
includes one considerable source of income which would scarcely be
expected. “Fares” for rides on the elephants and camels reach the
respectable amount of £606 17_s._ 4_d._, a sum which seems nearly
constant in the recent annual records of the Zoo. Admissions to the
Gardens reached £13,981, an increase of £272 over last year; and the
subscriptions of Fellows of the Society amount to over £6,000, which
represents roughly the sum in which the public, after paying their
entrance-fees, are indebted to the Society. Lastly, the assets at
Regent’s Park and in the offices at Hanover Square are valued at
£70,000, including one estimate of £21,542 for the animals in the
menagerie, and another of £15,600 for the unrivalled library of Zoology
owned by the Society.
With the exception of the young hippopotamus, which, in bulk at least,
is a substantial addition to the assets of the Society, the arrivals in
the Gardens were more than counterbalanced by the losses during the
year. The obituary of the last giraffe has already been given; and it is
interesting to notice that the Report corroborates the fear there
expressed, that for the present there is no hope of obtaining a
successor. “Owing to the closure of the Soudan by the Mahdists,” we
read, “the supply of this and other large African mammals, which were
formerly obtained _viâ_ Kassala and Suakim, has ceased, and so far as
can be ascertained, there are now no living giraffes in the European
market.” Among the other deaths recorded are those of a lioness, a male
cheetah, two common zebras, an Aard wolf, and a Beatrix antelope. More
than sixty monkeys also succumbed to the intense cold of the winter. On
the other hand, a large and varied progeny of young creatures was born
in the Gardens during the year, and many hundreds of birds, animals, and
reptiles were presented to the Society by donors of all ranks and
conditions, from the Queen, whose gigantic ostrich occupies the empty
giraffe-house, to the public-school boy with a taste for natural
history, whose donation of a couple of “yellow-bellied toads,” brought
carefully to the Gardens in his coat-pocket, is duly acknowledged in
close proximity to the gift of “Her Majesty the Queen.”
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● Transcriber’s Notes:
○ The Greek quotes on page 198 were checked and corrected by a
native Greek speaker.
○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.
○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
when a predominant form was found in this book.
○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).