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The Museum Gardens in York once housed a collection of animals including a brown bear and peacocks, today the most prominent furry residents are grey squirrels. A pamphlet about the bear can be found in the Historic Library inside the Yorkshire Museum. The botanical gardens contain the ruins of St Mary's Abbey, the medieval Hospitium and the Yorkshire Museum. Prior to flood defences being put into place there was a fountain behind the Hospitium and the remains of a public swimming pool complete with cubicles(dating from 1837) which were in a state of disrepair, sited just inside the Abbey walls. None of this is in evidence today but the Yorkshire Philosophical Society has information about the swimming pool.