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The expenditure of building all except the Monkey house fell 

 upon the Governniont grant and was too much for it so that Mr. 

 Krohn in the Annual Keport for 1875 wrote " the money allowed 

 although quite sufficient for the upkeep of a Zoological (iarden of 

 fair dimensions, is quite inadequate for the erection of suitable 

 houses for the various animals." 



At first two privates of a regiment stationed in Singapore were 

 •employed as keepers; then in 1876 Mr. C'apel, for whom a small 

 house was built below the Aviary. But Mr. Chapel's pay, small as it 

 was, made a large hole in the grant, and in 1877 he asked for a rise, 

 which led to a decision no longer to retain him ; Chinese next and 

 then Javanese were resorted to as keepers, the system of using 

 Javanese lasting until the end of the Zoo. 



There were big losses among the animals; for instance in 

 1876 some evil-disposed person or persons killed a Bear, the Emu 

 and a Cassowary in one night; the Rhino* died in 1877 and two 

 Kangaroos, and in 1878 both of the leopards. Losses so large caus- 

 ed the Committee to take the important decision of limiting the 

 collection to small animalsf ; and they sent the Tiger and Orang- 

 utan and a number of other animals to Calcutta, as exchanges for 

 Indian birds (Report 1879, p. 6). The year 1878, thus, saw the 



* The skeletons of the Rhino, and some other animals are in the Raffles 

 Museum. 



t The following footnote is from 

 September, 1877, which shows how 

 just died. — 



a MS list of the animals in the Zoo on 27th 

 large the Zoo was. The Rhinoceros had 



