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Animals in the Menagerie. 
December 31. 
es Comparisons 
1866. 1867. 
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The sum allowed in the estimates for the ordinary pur- 
chases for the Society’s Menagerie in 1867 was £2000. 
The amount actually spent in this manner, together with 
carriage and keepers’ travelling expenses was £1816. 
Besides this, however, special expenses connected with 
the increase of the Menagerie, amounting altogether to 
£1555 8s. 3d., were incurred under the following circum- 
stances. 
The loss sustained by the Society on the 6th of De- 
cember 1866, by the accidental fire which took place in 
the Giraffe-house, was alluded to in last year’s Report. 
The subsequent death of the old male Giraffe reduced the 
Society’s stock of this important animal to one adult 
female and a young male. Under these circumstances the 
Council thought it expedient to devote the special sum of 
£400 to the acquisition of a young female Giraffe, which was 
imported last summer. The animal thus acquired makes an 
excellent match to the young male born on the 17th of 
March 1867 in the Gardens, and both of them are now in 
excellent health and condition. The Council trust that this 
addition will enable them to keep up the breed of Giraffes, 
of which no less than seventeen have been bred in the 
Society’s Gardens since their first acquisition, as will be 
seen by the subjoined Table :— 
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