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then with a fine collection of four indisputably wild animals he succeeded 
in having the name of the gardens changed from its first title of “Accli- 
matisation Society’s Gardens” to the “Zoological and Acclimatisation 
Society’s Gardens,” by which name, with the addition of “Royal,” they 
are (officially) known to-day. 
Studying his new keeper. 
The first leopard was well known in Melbourne before he became a 
resident of the Zoo. He was part of the stock-in-trade of a quaint old 
identity known everywhere as “Old Charlie Wright,” a cheery old man 
who was the proprietor of a variety show that he ran in connection with 
