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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL AS READ AT THE ANNUAL 
MEETING, FEB. 15th, 1836. 
^HE Council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society has much 
pleasure in submitting its Twenty-second Annual Report to the 
Subscribers. 
During the past year the Society has made very satisfactory 
progress, the Gardens having been much improved, and the Zoological 
collection largely increased. The Director of the Society visited 
England and the Continent in the early part of the year, and sent and 
brought out a considerable number of animals and birds, the whole of 
which were carried free by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga¬ 
tion Company. The Company has for years past acted with the 
greatest generosity and liberality to the Society, and the Council 
desires again to express its thanks to the Company and its superin¬ 
tendent here, Mr. G. Withers. 
To accomodate the new additions, several pretty structures have 
been erected, and fresh enclosures made. The public has shown its 
