THE 
nIigM ami Judhtiirtfeation Sirielg if wtitiit, 
Offices : Zoological Gardens, Melbourne. 
REPORT OF THE 
As 
Read and Adopted at the Annual 
February 17th, 1890. 
COUNCIL, 
Meeting, Monday, 
M^HE Council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society has 
much pleasure in presenting its twenty-sixth Annual Report 
to the Subscribers. Every yearly Report submitted is a record 
of progress, and the past year has been no exception in this respect. 
The alterations and improvements effected in the Gardens 
during the past year have been very numerous. Eight of the oldest 
aviaries and cages have been taken down and re-erected in a more 
substantial and ornamental manner while a number of others have 
been improved in various ways. Some of the old and unsightly 
fencing has also been removed and replaced in a much more 
ornamental and useful style, and it is intended to gradually renew 
all the old fences in the gardens. 
More than half of the Garden boundary fence has also been 
replaced by a higher and more substantial structure. 
