the 
( f flee; the darnivera were housed cn the north ea't r £cle f 
c the Bandstand Hill ; the monkeys near the present Herbarium. 
The expense c f the building and maintenance cf 
-V i 
the an5jng>lfj he w^ver, proved tec much fc r the 6c vernment grants, j 
and when in 1876 r;c me evi|fc disposed person k;’ 1 led j\ one night ' 
a Bear. the Emu and 
and when . ihc rtlv afterwards 
several c f the larger animal a died, it warj decided tc limit the 
collection tc smal 1 animals only. By 1879 , only the deer and 
a few small animals and bi rds remained, and shortly after war dr; 
th.e idea c f the 2co was definitely abandoned and the 
ec Hectic n digperned, 
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