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OFFICES: ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, MELBOURNE. 
EEPOBT OP THE COUNCIE. 
As Read at the Annual Meeting, February 20th, 1888. 
HE Council of the Society lias much pleasure in submitting 
its twenty-fourth Annual Report to the subscribers. 
It was stated in last year's report that it was intended to 
make the Gardens as attractive as possible before the opening of 
the Exhibition and this object has been kept steadily in view. The 
Government was good enough to assist by placing an extra £1,000 
for the use of the Society, on the estimates for 1887-8 and this has 
been of great assistance in carrying out needed alterations and 
improvements. 
The following is a list of the principal works completed since 
the last report was published. A new Museum has been built and 
the old one converted into a Crocodile House, a handsome enclosure 
has been erected for peacocks and other gaily plumaged birds with 
a house in the centre, a new paddock lias been enclosed for the 
