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Offices: Zoological Gardens, Melbourne. 
REPORT OP THE COUNCIL 
EOE 1892, 
As Read and Adopted at the Annual Meeting, Monday, 
February 2oth, 1893. 
The Council regret to state that the depression through which 
the colony is passing has been severely felt by the Society, for not 
only has the annual vote on the estimates for the current year been 
reduced by the sum of ^500, but the takings at the gates have also 
considerably diminished. This curtailment of an already insufficient 
income is a very serious state of affairs, as it prevents any extension 
by purchase of the Zoological collection, and it, in fact, embarrasses 
the management in every way; the Society has always been 
administered on strictly economical lines, and it is not possible 
to do much in the way of reducing the expenses without injury to 
the Gardens. This state of affairs is very disheartening both to 
the Council and the Directors, as it does not arise from any default 
in the management, the Gardens having been quite as attractive, 
if not even more so, during the past year than they have hitherto 
been. It will be the aim of the Council and the Directors to tide 
over the present unfortunate position of affairs with as little loss to 
the Society as possible. 
