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£500 Stock required to complete that amount in January 

 1859, as already mentioned, the Council resolved to devote 

 a portion of the surplus Income of the Society to the 

 erection of substantial buildings to replace the tempo- 

 rary sheds in which many of the animals are at present 

 located, and to other works tending to the permanent im- 

 provement of the Gardens. The New Zebra- and An- 

 telope-House, the first section of which was completed 

 and opened to the public in July last, is the most important 

 building undertaken with this object. In the course of the 

 present and next succeeding summer the Council hope to 

 extend this edifice to about three times its present dimen- 

 sions, and thus to be able to bring into one building the 

 full series of the different varieties of Antelopes possessed 

 by the Society, the beauty of which, from the fact of their 

 being scattered about in different parts of the Gardens, and 

 often placed in very inconvenient situations, has hardly 

 hitherto been fully appreciated by tlie public. The Council 

 have every reason to believe that the whole House, when 

 thus finished, will not only be the most durable and most 

 convenient of any in the Society's Gardens, but will also 

 be by no means deficient in architectural merits. The 

 cost of the section of this building now in use, exclusive 

 of the courts, was £1100; that of the whole building 

 when completed, it is estimated, will amount to about 

 £2500. 



Another important undertaking to which the Council 

 have also turned their attention during the past year has 

 been the improvement of the Superintendent's House in 

 the North Gardens. The sleeping-rooms on the ground- 

 floor, which existed in the former house, were condemned 

 by the Society's Medical Officer as likely to be injurious 

 to the health of those using them, and the whole accommo- 

 dation was hardly such as was proper for a person occupy- 

 ing the responsible station of the Superintendent of the 

 Society's Gardens. In rebuilding this house, with the 

 addition of an upper story (which has been effected under 

 contract with Messrs. Lucas at a cost of £600), the Council 

 believe that they have fully remedied both these deficiencies. 

 By the removal of the Greenhouses from their original 

 position, alongside and within a few^ feet of the Super- 

 intendent's House, to a vacant space near the west entrance 

 for workmen on the south side of the Gardens (an altera- 

 tion which was effected during the past autumn, at a cost 



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