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THE present Reptile House in the Zoological Society's Gardens adjoining the Lecture Room, is an old wooden building, which in the early days of the Society was used for lions and tigers, and is now in a very bad state of repair. Besides this it is much too small for the present collection of reptiles. The cages which it contains are always over full, while the tortoises are necessarily lodged in a separate house, and the crocodiles are kept in a building properly destined to contain sloths and marsupials. Moreover, most of the compartments in the present Reptile House are accessible only from the front, which renders it inconvenient, not to say dangerous, to open them in the day-time, when the house is filled with sightseers. Under these circumstances, the Council of the Society have determined to construct an entirely new building for the better accommodation of the reptiles at the southern corner of the Gardens, and having obtained the necessary permission of H.M. First Commissioner of Works, will commence operations immediately.
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The New Reptile House at the Zoological Society's Gardens . Nature 26, 367–368 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026367a0
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