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Congress; Professor Doderlein and Victor, Ritter von To- 
chusi-Schmidhofen. 
III. GARDENS, REGENT’S PARK. 
1. BuritpInGs anp Works. 
The new Elephant-house having been finally completed 
in 1870 (with the exception of some slight additional works 
to the amount only of £39 14s. 5d., executed in 1871), 
the Council determined to proceed with the bridge over 
the Regent’s Park canal, to connect the Society’s grounds 
on the north bank with the present Gardens, this, as 
announced in their previous Report, being considered to be 
the next* special work which claimed attention. The 
Council had hoped and expected to have been able to 
commence this undertaking last summer, and had in fact ac- 
tually entered into a provisional contract for its execution. 
But it was not possible to commence the work without 
the full approval of the Crown, as represented by the 
Government Board of Works, -and also of the Regent’s 
Canal Company, of the plans and specifications. The 
negotiations consequent upon this necessity caused great 
delay, and were not, in fact, brought to a final conclusion 
until about a month ago. All difficulties having been at 
length successfully surmounted, a contract for the erection 
of the bridge was entered into with Messrs. D. Cross and 
Son for the sum of £1295, and the works are now being 
rapidly proceeded with. 
Under these circumstances the only special works exe- 
cuted in the Society’s Gardens in 1871 were of quite a 
minor character, as will be seen by the following list, and 
involved only the expenditure of £669 9s. 10d. —— 
Grae uiind. 
1. New Drain to Hippopotamus-pond. . . 4615 5 
2. Additional Works in Elephant-house . . 39 14 5 
3. ditto in Refreshment-rooms . 63 1 3 
4. New Bisit-gate 282? Pts Fe aD a! : pie eSNG 
By New Watermamss VE SSMOt\PL wey wig 670 
6. New Cages for British Birds . . . . . 43 J 9 
7. Burning ballast ee) og ey oe ae ae ORT ere 
The largest item, it will be observed (No. 5), is that 
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