REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Annual Meeting of the Zoological and Accli- 
matisation Society of Victoria was held on Monday, 
the 24th day of February, at the office of the Society, 
30 Swanston-street. 
The following Members were present : 
DE. THOMAS BLACK, President, in the chair. 
ME. LE SOTTEF, Honorary Secretary. 
MESSES. C. ALLPOET. 
F. E. GODFEEY. 
A. PTJECHAS. 
F. G. MOULE. 
COUNT DE CASTELKACT. 
MESSES. C. EYAN. 
G. SPEIGG. 
J. B. WEEE. 
S. WILSON. 
H. P. VENABLES. 
DE. JOSEPH BLACK. 
Mr. Godfrey stated, that some months since, he 
proposed an alteration in Rule 4, having for its object 
the reduction of the number of the Council from 
18 Members to 12 ; at a meeting of the Council 
called to consider the proposed alteration, it was 
found that the power to alter the Rules rested only 
with the annual, or a special meeting of the Society, 
and not with the Council. He therefore withdrew 
his motion, on the understanding that it would be 
revived at the annual meeting, and he had given the 
necessary notice to the hon. secretary, and now begged 
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