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removal rather adversely operated against him. Tliis is an account 

 of it. 



Immediatelv it was generally known that the Government 

 M'oiild maintain a collection of animals in the Gardens gifts poured 

 in. Sir Andrew Glarke presented a Two-horned Rhinoceros, Sir 

 Ernest Birch a Slotli Bear, Messrs. Brinkmaim and R. Jamie each 

 a Samhhur Deer, Captain Kirk two Orang-utans, the Acclimatisa- 

 tion Society in Melbourne an Emu, one Great Kangaroo, three 

 Bed Kangaroos and a Bush tailed Wallaby, — all in 1875; and in 

 1876, the King of Siam a Leopard, Mr. Hargreaves a Leopard, 



i^lan of the Botanic Garden 

 showing the old and new roads. 

 All roads made since Niven went 

 are dotted : all roads closed since 

 he went are cross shaded. R, is 

 where the Rhinoceros' enclosure 

 was : D, the deer enclosure : M, 

 the Monkey House : K, the Kan- 

 garoo and Emu pens; A, the old 

 Aviary : C, the first Carnivora 

 house: 0, Murton's Office. 



the Sultan of Tringganu a Tiger. These were in addition large 

 numbers of gifts a smaller animals. All the large animals needed 

 expensive arrangements for accommodation. For the Rhinoceros 

 an enclosure with a house and a wallow were made near Napier 

 Road by the foot of the lake. For the Deer an enclosure was pre- 

 pared against Garden Road: for the Kangaroos and the Emu pad- 

 docks were fenced adjoining Cluny Road near the Office Gate; the 

 Carnivora were given a house at the north east side of the Band- 

 stand hill where the Agri-Horticultural Society had had an Orchid 

 House. The aviary was erected on the east side of the hill. At 

 the expense of a Chinese merchant of Singapore, Mr. Cheang Hong 

 Lim, an ornamental iron structure was put up as a Monkey House 

 (completed April, 1877) near where the Herbarium now is, to be- 

 come the ceiitre of the Zoo after Murton had gone. 



