Four handbills relating to the election of the Society's council and officers for 1870, and a copy of 'Report of the Auditors of the Accounts of the Zoological Society of London, Appointed January 21, 1869.'

All items are good, on lightly aged paper. The 'Report of the Auditors of the Accounts' is seven pages, octavo, stitched and unbound. It consists of five full-page tables: 'Receipts', 'Payments', 'Comparison of Receipts in 1867 and 1868', 'Comparison of Payments in 1867 and 1868' and one showing 'The Assets and Liabilities of the Society on the 31st of December 1868'. Comment by the seven auditors (all named) on final page, remarking on 'the unexampled state of prosperity of the Zoological Society at the close of the previous year'. The four handbills are each on one side of a 12mo leaf. They consist of a notice of the election by the secretary Philip Lutley Sclater ('The Band of the First Life Guards will, by permission of Col. the Hon. Dudley de Ros, perform in the Gardens'), and three balloting lists, each dated 29 April 1869: for the Officers (on pink paper), the Council (on yellow paper), and the Committee of Publication (on green paper). An attractive collection of Victorian London Zoo ephemera.