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which by a small additional expenditure during the past 
winter have now been rendered quite complete. 
The want of proper accommodation for the fine specimens 
of different species of Wild Sheep possessed by the Society 
has long been felt. Some of these animals have been until 
recently kept in small pens in a very confined situation 
opposite the Old Museum. In the spring of last year the 
Council determined upon removing them to a vacant space 
next to the new walk in the South paddock, where good 
substantial sheds and yards, surrounded by a strong oak 
fence, have been erected for their accommodation, at a cost 
of £262 7s. 7d. The old sheds occupied by the Wild 
Sheep have since been removed, and a substantial brick- 
built building erected in its place, where the Society’s 
series of the interesting Australian family of Kangaroos 
and other Marsupials may be arranged with greatly in- 
creased accommodation. The amount expended on the 
new Kangaroo-sheds and the adjoining wall during the 
past year was £64 16s. 11d., whilst the whole of the re- 
maining cost of this great improvement to be charged 
against the expenditure of the present year is estimated not 
to be likely to exceed £140. 
The cost of completing the rebuilding in brick of the 
front row of the Antelope Sheds near the Hippopotamus 
House amounted to £41 18s. 10d. 
In the autumn of the past year a new building for hardy 
Mammals, to replace the unsightly boxes in which many 
of these animals had been formerly kept, was erected for 
the Society under contract with Messrs. Lucas for the sum 
of £257; and the further amount of £15 6s. 10d. was ex- 
pended in the necessary alterations of the paths, and in a 
wall erected at the back of the new building. 
Various other additions to the buildings and smaller” 
works in the Society’s Garden, the particulars of which 
have been given in the general summary just read, amounted 
in the whole to £98 4s. 2d., and together with the item of 
£93 14s. 6d., being the expenditure incurred in regrayelling 
the walks after the extra usage to which they were subjected 
during the summer, make up the sum of £2172 1s. 3d., 
which is, as has been already stated, the total amount of 
extraordinary expenditure incurred in the Society’s Garden 
Establishment during the year 1862. 
