REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 
FOH THE YEAR 1866. 
The Council of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria has now 
the honour to lay before the Subscribers and Public the Fifth 
Annual Report. 
The financial position of the Society is satisfactory, although the 
subscriptions have fallen off somewhat in the country districts. The 
Balance Sheet attached to this report^ does not give a correct idea of 
the amount thus received, as the country collector was unavoidably 
detained in town until after the close of the Society’s financial year. 
Enough has been since received to enable the Society to claim the 
whole of the Government grant for this year. With reference to 
the amount stated in the balance sheet to have been received from 
Government, a large portion of that sum belongs to the year 1865, 
and was expended during that year. 
The Council cannot allow this Report to issue without expressing 
regret at the death of the late Mr. Haines, a gentleman who 
acted so recently as President of the Society. 
During the past year the following changes have taken place in 
the Council: — Mr. Watts and Mr. Curr resigned, and Sir. G. C. 
Levey and Mr. H. P. Venables were elected in their stead. It now 
devolves upon this meeting to confirm these elections, and to fill the 
vacancy in the Council caused by the resignation of the Hon. S. H. 
Bindou, and Messrs. L. Mackiunon, and E. P. S. Sturt. 
The Council is happy to inform the Members that His Excellency 
the Hon. Sir J. H. T. Manners Sutton has kindly consented to 
accept the office of Patron of the Society. 
The great achievement of the Society during the past year has 
keen the introduction of a flock consisting of ninety-three 
Angora goats. A large amount of money has been expended on 
these animals and there is every prospect of speedily establishing 
them in the country. These goats have been found to thrive admi¬ 
rably in this colony, the climate of which is not unlike that of their 
native country. Since the arrival of the flock its increase has been 
sixty, whilst two only have died. The total number of pure 
