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the following paragraph appeared in the Times of January 

 28, 1841 : 



It is stated tliat it is the intention of the members of the Zoological 

 Gardens {sic) in the Regent's Park to remove their extensive and valuable 

 collections of animals at the latter end of March next (the lease being 

 expired), as the Commissioners of Woods and Forests intend raising the 

 rent for the grant of another lease, which the members of the Society 

 will not agree to. It is not known for the present to what locality they 

 will be removed. 



There was a long correspondence on the subject between 

 the Council and the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and 

 Lord Melbourne's resignation occasioned a further delay. 



Eventually it was arranged (1) that the Society should sur- 

 render the slip of ground on the north bank of the canal which 

 they held from the Crown — that is, the present North Garden ; 

 (2) that they should exchange a piece of ground at the eastern 

 end of what is now the Middle Garden, required by the Com- 

 missioners for their proposed extension of the Broad Walk to the 

 canal, for an equal portion of new ground at the other end of 

 that garden ; and (3) that the ten acres of pasture ground adjoin- 

 ing the South Garden, hitherto held from year to year, should 

 be conceded to the Society for general purposes. In addition, 

 permission was granted for the erection of buildings and for 

 landscape gardening in these ten acres, and the Commissioners 

 agreed to fence that side exposed by the opening of the Park. 

 Refreshment Rooms were erected in 1841, and the present 

 much larger buildings occupy the site. 



In 1843 the New Carnivora Terrace was constructed. This 

 formed part of the plan of Decimus Burton, but was not then 

 adopted by the Council from a fear lest the animals should 

 suffer from exposure. In the Quarterly Review of June, 1836 

 (p. 318), Broderip wrote : 



There was one plan which, if it had not been considered impracticable 

 on account of the health of the animals, would have had a grand effect. 

 It was proposed by the architect to continue the terrace entirely along 

 the southern line, and to build beneath it the carnivora dens: it would 

 have been the finest terrace in Europe. 



The walk was extended for about 150 feet from the bear pit 

 over the roof of the dens, of which there were originally six on 

 each side. Each cage was 24 ft. long, capable of division into 



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