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total have been already detailed in the Report presented to 
the Society by the Auditors. The Council will now proceed 
to pass each of these items in review, and to explain the 
objects which led them to undertake the several works. 
The sum of £1839 1s. 6d. was the balance required for 
the completion of the New Antelope House, and the adjoin- 
ing yards and fences. Shortly after the last Anniversary 
this building was sufficiently complete to allow the larger 
Antelopes to be removed into the comfortable quarters there 
provided for them, and the house is at present occupied by 
the following members of this interesting family :— 
1 Bless-bok. 3 Leucoryx. 
1 Lechee. 2 Nylghaus. 
1 Sable Antelope. 1 White-tailed Gnu. 
1 Hartebeest. 1 Brindled Gnu. 
2 Addax. 
In the autumn of last year the Council thought it would 
be prudent to avoid any risk which so valuable a series of 
these delicate animals might incur from excessive cold 
during the approaching winter by providing artificial 
warmth for the New House. The manner-in which their 
plans for this purpose have been carried out by Messrs. 
Weeks, to whom the contract for erecting the requisite hot- 
water apparatus was entrusted, deserves to be mentioned 
with great praise. The results arrived at have been most 
successful, a temperature of not less than 50° having been 
maintained in the Antelope House during the severest 
frosts, and not one of these tender animals having suffered 
from the occasionally extreme cold of the past winter. 
At the same time the warming apparatus erected for the 
purpose has been used to heat hot-water pipes in the dens 
of the large Carnivores, and an improvement which the 
Council have long wished to make in the building occupied 
by these latter animals thus effected. The amount of 
Messrs. Weeks’s contract for these works is £285, which 
will be charged against the income of the present year— 
the sum of £65 13s. 6d., which will be found amongst the 
items of extraordinary expenditure for the past year, repre- 
senting the amount spent on masonry and earthworks 
connected with the apparatus, which were executed by the 
Society’s staff of workmen. 
The necessity of the enlargement of the space allotted 
to Visitors for procuring refreshments in the Society’s 
