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has been maintained of rare and beautiful flowers has been 

 of the most pleasing and generally interesting kind. 

 The Receipts from 



Admissions to the Gardefis 



amounted in 1835 to £7343 6s. In the previous year, the 

 receipts from the same source were £7545 1*. But notwith- 

 standing the small diminution thus shown in the number of 



Visttors to the Lrardens, 



the actual number of Visitors in 1835 exceeded that of 1834 

 by 1485. The total number of visits to the Gardens in the 

 last year was 210,068. 



The most important of the 



Works 



of the past year has been the erection of a spacious House 

 for the Elephant and the Rhinoceros ; animals of high value 

 and of immense power, and consequently requiring that ade- 

 quate accommodation should be provided for them in a build- 

 ing of greater strength and extent than that in which they 

 had previously been confined. The newly erected house 

 affords ample space for the animals, and for visitors; and 

 is very substantially built of timber saturated in Kyan's 

 solution, as a preservative against the dry rot. Considerable 

 attention has been paid in its construction to the securing 

 of good ventilation : and the warming of it has been in a 

 great measure effected on a plan suggested by Mr. Barber 

 Beaumont, and previously adopted at the County Fire Office, 

 the chimney being carried round the building beneath the in- 

 combustible floor, and the whole of the heat being thus given 

 out within the house itself, instead of escaping in a great de- 

 gree, as is usual in straight vertical chimneys, with the strong 

 current of air passing rapidly through them. 



A consequence of the erection of the new Elephant House 



