4 MAY 1929, Page 22

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It , appeared from the report, read at the annual meeting on Wednesday, that the receipts of the last year amounted to 12,3581, and the expensei to about 10,0441. Tho number of visitors to the gardens, in the past year, was upwards of 112,000. As the soil of the Regent's Park is unfit for the health of the more delicate beasts and birds, the Society has purchased thirty-three acres of ground at Kingston, " to allow the various ankles's belonging to the Society a place in which they might breed in quiet, and that opportunities might be offered of rearing and domesticating, if possible, foreign beasts and birds for the purposes of the table. Measures had also been taken at Kingston to make experiments in the breeding of fishes."