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to the Garden Establishment. Concerning each of them 
a few words of explanation may be requisite. 
1. The three new Lodges replace the wooden boxes until 
recently tenanted by the money-takers at the entrance to 
the Society’s Gardens. These buildings, although erected 
originally to serve merely temporarily for the purpose to 
which they were devoted, had been suffered to remain for 
many years without alterations, or anything more than 
necessary repairs. ‘The new Lodges have been fitted up 
with every requisite necessary for the purposes for which 
they are intended. They are also ornamental adjuncts to 
the Society’s premises, and have the further advantage of 
giving shelter from the weather to persons entering the 
Gardens, whilst they pay the entrance-fees or write their 
names in the visitors’ books. 
2. The New or Eastern Aviary, as it is proposed to call it, 
occupies nearly the same ground as the former Aviary which 
was removed to make room for it. It is, however, larger 
in dimensions, and has been constructed on very different 
principles, being, as the Council believe, in several respects 
superior to any other building for the care and exhibition 
of birds that has yet been erected in this country. The 
elevation of the floor above the ground brings the objects 
displayed within it more nearly to the level of the eye of 
the spectator, and is also of advantage to the inmates 
themselves, in securing better drainage and affording more 
air and light. The passage through the interior of the 
building must be also regarded as an improvement, as 
enabling the birds to be seen in winter and in bad weather, 
when under ordinary circumstances they are inaccessible 
to visitors. 
3. The New Monkey House, which has been erected on 
one of the best sites in the Society’s premises, will replace 
what is at present perhaps the most defective portion of 
the Society’s Garden-establishment. The closed window- 
less building which has been devoted to the exhibition of 
Quadrumana ever since the first establishment of the 
Gardens has been long condemned as objectionable in 
many respects, and is, moreover, fissured in a dangerous 
way from having been built on imperfect foundations. The 
Council therefore gladly embraced the opportunity offered 
by the surplus of Income in 1862 to carry out a plan for 
replacing it by a building constructed upon entirely different 
principles. ‘The chief object aimed at in the New Monkey 
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