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Duffield refers iiere to his arrangements to import 1,500 Alpacas 
into Victoria. 
The Council desire to record their deep sense of gratitude to the 
donor of the “ Argus Prize Cup” for having this year devoted that 
cup to objects so immediately connected with acclimatisation. 
The Council cannot conclude without expressing theirbest thanks to 
His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly for his active and valued patronage 
— to Mr. Edward Wilson for his kind advocacy of the Society’s wants 
at home — to Dr. Black for the unwearied diligence with which he 
has tilled the office of Acting President — to Dr. Mueller who, in 
spite of liis multifarious duties, has been untiring in his devotion to 
the cause of acclimatisation — to Mr. T. J. Sumner for his useful ser¬ 
vices as Honorary Treasurer- — to Mr. W. H. Archer for his kindly help 
as Honorary Secretary — to Mr. H. J. Chambers, for his important ser¬ 
vices as honorary legal adviser to the Council — to Messrs. Samuel and 
Charles Wilson of the Wimmera, for their valuable co-operation — to 
Messrs, llichardson, Johnstonand Co., of Mauritius, Messrs. Gillanders, 
Arbuthnot and Co., of Calcutta, Mr. It. S. It. Fussell, of Eon Chou 
— to Mr. C. P. Layard of Colombo, Mr. Edward Blythe of Calcutta, 
Captain Bnyley of Point de Galle, Captain lteid, Admiralty Agent, 
and to Mr. J. W. Brookes, of Sydney, for their valuable services 
rendered in aid of the Society’s objects. 
The Council must refer in terms of gratitude to the liberality of 
the Legislature, and express an earnest hope that the same wise and 
enlightened bounty will continue to be exercised towards the Society, 
confident as its members are that the consequences of such a policy will 
be the aggrandisement of the colony, and the multiplication of its 
industrial resources, while its attractions as a place of residence will 
be materially enhanced when it offers to the lover of nature and the 
sportsman the same sources of pastime and enjoyment with which 
lie was familiar in the country from which he emigrated, nor is it 
too much to expect that as important results will eventually flow 
from the introduction of the Alpaca and Cashmere Goat as have 
followed that of the sheep. No country in the world is so favour¬ 
ably circumstanced for acclimatisation purposes as Victoria, and it 
is within the power of its inhabitants to enrich it by stocking its 
broad territory with the choicest products of the animal kingdom 
borrowed from every temperate region on the face of the globe. To 
this good work the Acclimatisation Society addresses itself and 
hopes to command such a measure of public support as will enable 
it to fulfil the enterprise it has undertaken with honour to itself and 
with advantage to the whole community. 
