REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st AUGUST, 1804. 



The Council of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, in 

 submitting to the Subscribers the Third Annual Report of their 

 transactions, remind the Members that, owing to an alteration made 

 at the last Annual Meeting, by which the commencement of the 

 Society's year was made to date from September instead of July, 

 this Report will be a record of what has been done during the 

 last "fourteen months, and the Council trust that a perusal of it 

 will prove that much progress has been made, and many important 

 results achieved. 



The financial position of the Society is very satisfactory : a large 

 increase has taken place in the private subscriptions, and tin- 

 Council feel justified in accepting this fact as a proof of the 

 growing interest felt in acclimatisation, and the increasing import- 

 ance attached to it. The total receipts, including balance from 

 last year, from all sources, has been £5,386 -is. Id. The total 

 expenditure, £4,689 19s. 2d., thus leaving a balance to the credit 

 of the Society of £696 4s. lid. The Council would observe, that 

 of the amount placed as expended under the head of Purchase of 

 Animals, the sum of £600 still remains in the hands of the agents 

 abroad. 



At the last Annual Meeting, as has been already mentioned, 

 several changes Avere made in the Rules of the Society, the most 

 important of which were the abolition of the office of Honorary 

 Secretary, and the appointment of a second Vice-President. The 

 post of Honorary Secretary was vacated by Mr. W. H. Archer, not 

 however without a cordial vote of thanks having been conveyed to 

 that gentleman by the Council, for the efficient manner in which he 

 had fulfilled the duties of the office since the foundation of the 

 Society. The additional Vice-Presidency was conferred upon Dr. 

 Thomas Black, as an acknowledgment of the important services he 

 has so constantly rendered to the cause of Acclimatisation. 



