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III 1881 the last of the giraffes })red in tbe Gardens 

 died. 



In 1882 the gayal bred (the first recorded instance 

 in Europe). The tapirs In'ed for the first time in the 

 Gardens. This year, ' Jumbo,' the great African ele- 

 phant, was sold to Mr. Barnum, because it was con- 

 sidered unsafe to keep him any longer. The number 

 of visitors was abnormally increased by the. excitement 

 caused by the Jumbo mania, and rose to the large 

 number of 849,776, the second highest on record, 

 having been only surpassed in 1876 (915,764), when 

 the Prince of Wales's Indian collection was on view. 



In 1883 the famous chimpanzee, 'Sally,' was pur- 

 chased. 



In 1887 the great aviary for flying-birds was opened, 

 and, although the birds were not put in till June, pairs 

 of two species of ibis nested in some trees and reared 

 their young. 



In 1889 Mr. Benjamin Misselbrook, who had filled 

 the office of head-keeper for twenty-one years, retired 

 after more than sixty years' service in the employ of 

 the Society. He died in 1893. 



In 1892 the male giraffe, acquired in 1879, died, the 

 last survivor of the old stock. The Gardens were now, 

 for the first time since the arrival of the original stock 

 in 1836, without a representative of this animal. 

 During that period thirty specimens had been exhibited, 

 of which seventeen had been born in the Gardens and 

 thirteen purchased. 



The total number of animals in the Gardens on 

 December 31, 1892, was 2,413, showing an increase of 

 181 over the corresponding period of the previous year. 



