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Offices: Zoological Gardens, Melbourne. 
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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
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As Read and Adopted at the Annual Meeting, Monday, 
February i8th, 1895. 
f HE Council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society 
of Victoria have the honour to lay their Thirty-first Annual 
Report before the Subscribers. 
d"he Council refer with regret to the death of the late Dr. 
Thomas Black, of “ Cintra,” St. Kilda, which took place in 
September last; he was not only one of the founders of the Society 
and its President for many years, but he ever took a deep and 
genuine interest in its progress. 
The Council regret that they cannot present a more 
satisfactory Report of the financial position of the Society. 
The receipts at the gates and the takings of the Elephant 
during the past year amounted to -C '^535 is. lod., being an 
increase of iis. 5d. on the amount received from the 
same source during 1893—subscriptions in the same period 
showing a slight decrease. The falling off in revenue since the 
year 1889 has been very serious. In that year the Gate and 
Elephant receipts amounted to £ 2936 3s. 6d., and the subscriptions 
then were also about ^250 in excess of what they were last year. 
This state of affairs shows how severely the funds of the Society 
have suffered from the altered state of things in the colony, as the 
Gardens are in excellent order, and really more beautiful and 
