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Offices : Zoological Gardens, Melbourne. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
H 1 O IR, 1893) 
As Read and Adopted at the Annual Meeting, Monday, 
February 19TH, 1894. 
E Council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of 
Victoria has the honour to present its Thirtieth Annual 
Report to the Subscribers. 
The Council has to regret that, not only has no improvement 
taken place in the Society’s income, but that it has again sensibly 
diminished, in consequence of the universal depression in the colony. 
This year the annual vote on the estimates is the same as last year, 
namely, ^3500 per annum; but the takings at the gates have again 
been smaller. Every effort has, however, been made to meet the 
present state of things, and the Gardens have been kept in a high 
state of order and attractiveness, and it is admitted that the grounds 
have never been more beautiful than during the past year. It has 
been impossible, for lack of funds, to undertake new works of any 
importance, but many smaller improvements have been made, all 
of which have tended to beautify the Gardens—notably, a consider¬ 
able extension of the flower-beds. 
