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F 1 FT V - FI ( 111 TII ANNUAL REPORT. 
The Council of the Royal Zoological and Acclimatisation 
Society of Victoria begs to submit its Fifty-eighth Annual 
Report to the subscribers and the public, and has pleasure in 
stating that the receipts from the entrance gates for the year 
were £7,167/0/3. 
The number of visitors on Sundays was approximately 
317,861, and on week days 195.546, making a total of 513,407, 
beittg 127,748 more than last year. These figures do not 
include children from Charitable Institutions and State and 
Primary Schools, who are admitted free of charge. 48,910 
children rode on the elephant during the year. 
Another hippopotamus, a female, was born in the 
Gardens during the year, and is now eleven months old. It 
forms an additional attraction. 
A pair of zebras were received from Xululand about six 
months ago; they are unusually tame specimens. 
The flower gardens have been kept up to their usual 
standard of excellence. They are a great attraction to visitors, 
and add much to the beauty of the Gardens. 
It is not yet definitely settled which way the proposed 
West Brunswick Electric Tramway will go through the 
Park, therefore the site of the new entrance gate to the 
Gardens has not been located. When this is done, the build¬ 
ing of the new refreshment rooms will be considered. 
Mollie, the orang-utan, still continues to thrive, 
although she has been in the Gardens for twenty-one years, 
and is now twenty-three years old. 
A new enclosure has been made for stone plovers, 
together with alterations and improvements to some of the 
adjacent fences. Many new shrubs and palms have been 
