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of the Council, and although it can hardly be looked upon as so 
great a success as the first, owing probably to the fact that the 
novelty had somewhat passed off, yet it was in its primary objects 
successful, and the funds of the Society -were not in any way drawn 
upon. 
Before concluding this Eeport, the Council in justice to them¬ 
selves, feel constrained to notice a very common complaint made 
against the Society, of there being nothing to see at the Royal Park. 
This is owing to the fact, that the Society does not aim at being a 
zoological society, or possessing a zoloogical collection. In time 
to come when more shall have been accomplished in the acclimati¬ 
sation of useful quadrupeds and birds, it may be anticipated that 
the purely zoological may receive more attention ; but at present, 
in a country so bare of useful animals as Australia is, the Council 
think that they would be misapplying the funds intrusted to them 
were they to expend large sums of money in keeping at the Royal 
Park a collection of animals not suitable for the purposes of the 
Society. 
The Council are also desirous of impressing upon their friends 
and the public generally that acclimatisation in so vast a country 
as Australia must necessarily be a process of slow growth, and that 
the result of the Society’s labours can only be judged after the 
lapse of time ; although from the success already attained, the 
Council feel confident that gradually their efforts to improve 
this country, as a place of permauant residence for all classes of the 
people, will be fully acknowledged and appreciated. 
The Council are, at the suggestion of Mr. Curr, now considering the 
propriety of requesting the Government to reserve for the use of 
tlie Society certain portions of land in the various climatic regions 
of the colony', in order that the animals introduced by the Society 
may be placed in localities best suited to develope their more 
valuable qualities. 
In bringing the report to a conclusion the Council wish once 
more to place on record their sense of the obligations'of the Society 
to the' Presklent, Dr. Thomas Black, whose untiring energies and 
invaluable services never fail. Tho Council would also present their 
best thanks to the Right Hon. Lord Londesborough, to Major 
Michael of Madras, to Captain Burno of the R.M.S. “ Bombay,” to 
Captain Farquhar of the R.M.S. “Madras,” to Captain Skottowe of the 
R.M.S. “ Ellora,” to Captain Kyle of the ship “Pride of the Ocean,” to 
Mr. C. P. Layard, of Colombo; to Mr. E. L. Layard, of Cape Town ; 
