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Many other improvements have been effected during the year in 
the Gardens, such as re-forming some of the flower beds, altering 
and regrading paths, &c. 
The show of Roses was, as usual, very fine, and the beds bright 
with flowers. The Council endeavours, as far as able, to make 
the flower beds a distinctive feature, as they add so much to the 
attractiveness of a Zoological Garden. A long avenue of Pepper 
Trees has been planted where they are doing well, and will soon 
give a grateful shade to visitors during the summer months, besides 
adding to the picturesqueness of the Gardens. These are intended 
to supplant a row of sugar gums, which are infested with a wood 
borer, whose presence will ultimately cause the death of the trees. 
The Council regrets to state that the old Elephant, “Ranee,” 
died on December i8th,just before the holidays. The cause of 
death, as found by the Hon. Vet. Surgeon, Mr. W. T. Kendall, was 
a very large accumulation of biliary calculi, weighing over loo lbs., 
in the liver, that organ having been almost completely destroyed. 
The accumulation must have been going on for years. She had been 
twenty-one years in the Gardens, and during that lime had earned 
on an average ^150 a year in carrying children. The Council 
ventures to hope that some Indian Prince may, through the instru¬ 
mentality of llis Excellency the Governor-General (who has kindly 
consented to accept the position of Patron of the Society), be 
induced to make good our loss, as the one so kindly presented by 
the Hon. F. S. Grimwade is not yet old enough to carry children 
regularly. 
The Ourang Outang continues to thrive, and has grown consider¬ 
ably during the past year. The Council finds that these exceedingly 
interesting animals thrive far better without any artificial heat than 
with it. 
The Tallegallas, or Scrub Turkeys, have again been successfully 
hatched this season from the nesting mounds the two pairs of birds 
have made. This is now the fifth season that this interesting 
event has occurred. 
The Council, owing to the reduction of the Government grant, has 
been unable to purchase any important animals during the past year, 
but several have been added through exchange, such as a Japanese 
r^ear, Rusa and Fallow Deer, a fine Bantung Bull, a Guanaco, 
Sarus Cranes, Flamingoes, Indian Squirrels, besides many smaller 
specimens of foreign and Australian fauna. 
The charge for admission to the Gardens on Mondays has been 
reduced from one shilling to sixpence, as on other week days. 
The total revenue for the past year has been ^4880 8s. 2d., this, 
compared with the previous year, shows a slight falling off; this is 
