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Two attempts lave been made to send over the lobster and crab, 
by Mr. Mackinnon, but both have unhappily failed. The failure 
also of the second attempt made, under the auspices of the Associ¬ 
ation for the Australian Colonies, to introduce the salmon to 
Tasmanian waters, is too fresh in your minds to require comment ; 
likewise the attempt made by Captain James Lowry, in the Formosa, 
to introduce the Gouramier from Mauritius, although both theso 
attempts only more clearly show the feasibility of the scheme, if con¬ 
ducted with more experience and under more favourable circum¬ 
stances. 
While, as the Council remarked at the outset of this Report, its 
labours for the past year have been of au initiatory character, it is 
believed that the foundations have been securely laid for a great and 
beneficent work to be accomplished hereafter. To bring such a 
society into communication with cognate bodies in distant countries, 
to establish a system of co-operation and exchange, with persons 
residing at diiferent points in the far quarters of the globe, and to 
arrange for the reception, multiplication, and distribution of birds 
and other animals, which must first of all bear a tedious sea voyage, 
and then receive the vigilant attention necessary to preserve them in 
. a new climate, demaud exertions which are not the less onerous 
because they escape notice. 
The Council record, with some satisfaction, that two 
prize medals have been awarded to the Society by the jurors 
of the International Exhibition, now being held at London : 
one of these was especially awarded for Angora wool, and 
the other for general objects of use and interest. Meanwhile, it is 
satisfactory to reflect, that besides the practical work performed, 
much valuable information has been widely diffused, public attention 
has been drawn to the paucity of serviceable animals in this Colony, 
and private enterprise is beginning to second associative elfort. 
Measures are now in progress for the speedy introduction and acclima¬ 
tisation of Roedeer, Partridges, Rooks, Hares, Sparrows, and Song¬ 
birds, from England; Deer, Cashmere Goats, and Black 
Partridge, from India: Ostriches, Pheasants and Partridges, 
and Antelopes, from the Cape of Good Hope; for all of which the 
money has been remitted, and the Council would point with some 
gratification to the following extract from one of Mr. Duffield’s 
letters : 1 shall ever remember, with the greatest pleasure, that it 
was owing to your sympathy and energetic support that I remained 
in Melbourne, and so ultimately succeeded in making arrangements 
for carrying out our purposes in the moat satisfactory manner.” Mr. 
