III. GARDEN ESTABLISHMENT. 



1. Works and Repairs. 



No new work of any consequence has been undertaken 

 at the Gardens since the last Anniversary, with the excep- 

 tion of the reconstruction of the Clock Tower ; but the 

 general repair of existing buildings has been proceeded 

 with uninterruptedly, and the Council are happy to say that 

 this department^ which has always been a source of heavy 

 expense to the Society, is at the present moment in a more 

 satisfactory state than it has been for many years past. 

 With the intention of reducing this item of Expenditure 

 as much as possible, and at the same time providing for a 

 prompt and efficient execution of repairs on a uniform 

 system and under the responsible superintendence of the 

 same officer, the Council were induced to adopt a sugges- 

 tion of the Receipt and Expenditure Committee, by which 

 the whole of the repairs of every kind have been since exe- 

 cuted by Mr. Sanders under the immediate direction and 

 superintendence of Mr. Bellamy, the Society's architect. 

 The plan adopted, at first only by way of experiment, has 

 fully answered the expectations of the Council, who hope 

 that it will prove as economical as it is efficient. The 

 drainage of the Gardens, Avhich had become impaired in 

 many cases, has been partly opened and relaid during the 

 past season. 



2. Menagerie. 



The addition of greatest importance made to this depart- 

 ment during the past year was the female Chimpanzee 

 * Susan,' supposed to be nearly adult, and whose death from 

 fever, brought on by decay of the molar teeth, happened 

 some months ago. This, and the death of the Polar Bear 

 from violent inflammation and enlargement of the tongue, 

 are the casualties of greatest consequence which have oc- 

 curred at the Gardens since the last Anniversary. Indeed 

 the Menagerie has never been in a more healthy state since 

 the establishment of the Society than during the past 

 season. The daily returns of the sick list frequently ex- 

 hibited a total blank, and the absence of important losses, 



