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Surrey Zoological Gardens, 



spot could not have been selected within the same distance of 

 the metropolis. Observatou. 



London, February, 1832. 



Of the conservatory so justly admired by Observator, we have in pur 

 Gardener^s Magazine^ vol. vii. p. 692, 693., given a figure and short 'de- 

 scriptior^: these we will here also introduce, in illustration of Observator's 

 remarks, not doubting that the recollection of the clearness of conception 

 which tbie cut will promote to those who only peruse our Magazine of 

 Natural Hktorijy will sufficiently apologise for the repetition, to those who 

 are in the habit of reading this Magazine and the Gardener's Magazine also. 

 Our description will be found as follows : — 

 u5*4ln the plan, from memory, of this building {fig, 83.), the animals 



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(tiobfjrigefii leopards, &c.) ^re kept in separate cages or compartments (a) 

 towards the centre ; exterior to them is a colonnade (A), supporting the 

 glazed roof, and also for cages of birds ; within this colonnade will be 

 placed hot-water pipes for heating the whole, and beyond it is an open 

 paVed area for spectators (c) ; next, there is a channel for a stream of 

 water, intended for gold, silver, and other exotic fishes (d)-, and, beyond, 

 a border, under the front wall, for climbing plants {e\ to be trained on 

 wires under the roof. It is singular that the elevation of this building 

 (j'fg. 84.) is almost a/ac simile of the elevation which we made in May last 

 for the hot-housCs of the Birmingham Horticultural Society's garden; the 

 only difference being the addition, in our plan, of exterior pits, and of pedi- 

 ments over the entrance porches. The curvilinear sash-bars in Mr. Cross's 

 building are of iron, by Brown of Clerkenwell, and the glazing is beauti- 

 fully executed by Driake of the Edgeware Road.''— Cl^^t/., ,,,.-,. 



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