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the Council had attended to their duties from week to week, and to 

 the various subjects discussed. No doubt a great deal of the suc- 

 cess of the Society was attributable to the confidence and assurance 

 felt in the fact that the Council attended energetically to the ad- 

 vancement of the objects of the Society. He was well aware that 

 among the most eminent of those who had done so much for the 

 association must be recorded the name of their late president, Mr. 

 Edward Wilson, and he desired to state his concurrence with the 

 sentiment expressed by the Council at the loss of so zealous and 

 experienced a co-operator. At the same time, he congratulated the 

 Society on having secured, as a successor to Mr. Wilson, a gentleman 

 with so high a personal and public reputation as Mr. Haines. No 

 doubt under his auspices, and the active exertions of Mr. Wilson, and 

 such gentlemen as Dr. Black and others who had done so much, the 

 Society would continue to flourish and command the respect of the 

 public with an equal degree of success to that enjoyed during the 

 past year. For himself, he had to thank the Council for having, in 

 accordance with the request made by him at the last annual meet- 

 ing, offered him ample information to be sent through Her 

 Majesty's Government at home to the British Acclimatisation 

 Society, as to the animals and vegetable objects in this colony which 

 were likely to be suitable for acclimatisation in the mother country 

 and Europe. According, also, to the expressed wish of the Society, 

 he had requested of Her Majesty's Government that the Reports 

 received from other colonies, and Her Majesty's diplomatic represen- 

 tatives abroad with the various Governments with which Her 

 Majesty's Government was in communication, might be sent to this 

 Society. As yet he had received no reply, but he had not the slightest 

 doubt that if replies were not sent through the Government the 

 Society would in due course receive them from the acclimatisation 

 society at home. With these few observations he would call on the 

 secretary to read the report. 



The Secretary (Mr. Geo. Sprigg) then read the report. (See p. 5.) 



On the motion of Mr. Stutzer, seconded by Mr. Steavenson, the 

 report was adopted. 



Dr. Madden moved that the election of the Hon. W. C. Haines, 

 Dr. J. Black, Mr. D. S. Campbell, Mr. Thomas Loader, and Mr. H. 

 E. Watts, as members of the Council, be confirmed. 



The motion was seconded by Lieutenant-Colonel Champ, and 

 carried. 



Mr. Steavenson then moved, that Messrs. G. S. Lang, J. Sparkes, 

 and A. li. C. Selwyn be elected to fill the vacant seats in the Council. 



