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i. New Elephant-house. 
The circumstances under which this important building 
was undertaken were fully explained to the Fellows in the 
last Anniversary Report. The main building was com- 
pleted by the contractors and delivered to the Society in 
April last; but various necessary fittings and other small 
additions occasioned some further delay, so that the animals 
for the reception of which it was intended were not finally 
settled in their new quarters until late inthe summer, The 
Elephant-house as now arranged is divided into eight 
compartments, which give excellent Accommodation for 
the following animals :— 
. Male African Elephant. 
. Female ditto. 
. Male Indian Elephant. 
. Female ditto. 
Male Indian Rhinoceros. 
. Female ditto. 
. Male African Rhinoceros. 
Male American Tapir. 
This is, as the Council believe, by far the finest and most 
nearly complete series of the larger living representatives 
of the Cuvierian order of Pachyderms that has ever been 
brought together in Europe. 
The new Elephant-house likewise contains in the upper 
story four good keepers-rooms, and excellent lofts for the 
forage and other provisions required for the animals. 
The total cost of the new building, together with that of 
the necessary rearrangement of the surrounding grounds, 
and of the embankment and terrace-walk in front, has 
amounted, up to the close of last year, to £4047 16s. 3d. 
Of this, £1570 12s. 9d. was paid in 1868 and £2477 3s. 6d. 
in 1869. 
The remaining cost of the building and terrace-walk 
(amounting to upwards of £1100) has been paid since the 
commencement of the current year, and will be charged to 
the Extraordinary Expenditure of 1870. 
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ii. New Refreshment-room. 
The existing accommodation for the sale of Refreshments 
in the Society’s Gardens being found to be wholly inadequate 
to the growing demands of the public for this kind of accom- 
