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and that the ten acres hitherto held from year to year as 

 o-razing ground should be conceded to the Society for 

 general purposes, with permission to ei'ect buildings and 

 extend the landscape-gardening over this portion equally 

 as over every other part of the Gardens, the Com- 

 missioners further engaging to erect a substantial fence 

 round all that side of the Gardens which becomes ex- 

 posed by the opening of the Park. So long as the 

 settlement of these questions remained in abeyance, upon 

 which their future plans and the scope they might have 

 for carrying them out were obviously dependent, or with 

 which they were at least very intimately connected, the 

 Council was necessarily precluded from proceeding with 

 the arrangements which they had long contemplated for 

 the erection of the Museum, and the better accommo- 

 dation of the Ruminants, Carnivora, and other interest- 

 ing portions of the live Collection, as mentioned in last 

 year's Report ; but these obstacles being now removed, 

 it is hoped that no further impediment will arise to frus- 

 trate the immediate realization of their intentions. The 

 progress actually madeby the Museum Committee has been 

 already noticed, and the Council have to announce that 

 a Garden Arrangement Committee has been recently ap- 

 pointed, to consider and report on the most eligible plan 

 (and to superintend the laying out of the new ground) 

 for the arrangement of the Gardens generally, with special 

 reference to the providing of better and more permanent 

 accommodation for the Ruminantia, Carnivora, GaUina- 

 cea, and other interesting and valuable portions of the 

 live Collection. This Committee will presently commence 

 its duties, and proceed as rapidly as possible to their con- 

 clusion : if not actually enabled to finish, it is confidently 

 hoped that they will at least make very considerable pro- 

 gress towards the completion of their labours during the 

 present season. 



3. Menagerie. 



In no year since the commencement of the Society have 

 the lists embraced a greater number of Donations than 

 have been received during the past season ; and the 

 Council feel a peculiar pleasure in congratulating the 

 Fellows upon this fact, as a proof of the unabated interest 

 which the friends of the Society continue to take in fur- 

 thering its objects. The donation of five Orangs by J. 

 Brooke, Esq., Cor. Mem., demands a more especial no- 



