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Rooms, and the completion of the internal fittings of the 

 Monkey House by the addition of a second large cage. 

 The Steam-engine also, which from the combined effects 

 of wear and tear and original bad construction had got 

 considerably out of order, has undergone a thorough re- 

 pair, and the supply of water which it furnishes is now 

 more than sufficient for all the purposes of the Society. 

 It may be proper to notice also, that a very beautiful Sur- 

 vey of the Gardens, mentioned in the last Report as having 

 been ordered, has been since completed by Mr. Elmslie 

 to a scale of 30 feet to the inch, and has been found of 

 the greatest use in enabling the Council to judge properly 

 of the distribution of the Buildings with a just view to 

 economy and effect. 



Various works of greater magnitude, however, are in 

 immediate contemplation. The new Museum proposed 

 to be erected at the Gardens has been already mentioned, 

 and the building itself will be proceeded with as soon as 

 the pending arrangements with the Woods and Forests, 

 formerly alluded to, shall have been brought to a favour- 

 able issue. Other contemplated works will be mentioned 

 under the succeeding head of 



2. Extension of the Gardens. 



Shortly after the last Anniversary it became known 

 that a plan was under contemplation by the Commission- 

 ers of Woods and Forests for opening that part of the 

 Regent's Park which immediately surrounds the Gardens 

 on the south and south-west, to the public generally ; and 

 the Council considered this a favourable opportunity for 

 coming to a permanent arrangement with the Government 

 on the subject of the grazing ground, and some other 

 points arising more immediately out of the proposed al- 

 terations. A correspondence was accordingly opened 

 between the Council and the Commissioners of Woods 

 and Forests ; and after various delays, occasioned by the 

 change of Government and other causes, it was finally 

 agreed that the Society should surrender to the Crown 

 the slip of ground which they held on the north bank 

 of the Regent's Canal, opposite to the Gardens ; that 

 they should exchange a small portion of ground at the 

 eastern end of the North Garden, required by the Com- 

 missioners for their contemplated extension of the broad 

 central walk to the Canal, for a similar portion of new 

 ground at the western extremity of the same Garden; 



