REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30th JUNE, 1862. 
The Council of the AcclinunRation Society, in submitting to 
the Subscribers the l'irst Annual Report, of its transactions, must 
take leave to remind the Members that the Operations of the past 
year have been necessarily of a preliminary character, involving efforts 
and entailing an expenditure disproportionately large if measured by 
the immediate results obtained, but necessary and judicious when 
taken in connection with the future conduct and general objects of 
the Society. Its practical organization was a work which engaged 
the earliest attention of your Council, and the erection of the 
fences and buildings at the Royal Park was vigorously prosecuted, 
and was soon sufficiently advanced to admit of the reception of 
nearly all the quadrupeds and most of the birds belonging to the 
Society. Those, still remaining at the Botanical Gardens will be 
removed as speedily as circumstances will allow. In consequence of 
the increasing correspondence necessitated by the enlarged exertions 
of your Society, it was found needful to engage the services of a 
Secretary, and, consequently, in accordance with the ninth rule, your 
Council appointed Mr. George Sprigg, who has been very active, 
zealous, and efficient in the discharge of his duties. 
The total sum received from Subscriptions and Donations is £ 1172, 
and in addition to the £3000 voted by Parliament for the main¬ 
tenance of the Society, (of which amount the Council has received 
£1850,) the Council have received £2500 for buildings and fences, 
and £910 from special v otes passed in previous years for particular 
objects. By a reference to the Balance Sheet accompanying this 
report, it will be seen that of the amount placed as expended, 
£1300 still remains available to the gentlemen to whose care it has 
been entrusted. 
The Council have the pleasure of notifying the foundation of sister 
Societies in the neighbouring colonies of New South Wales, South 
Australia, and Tasmania. In August, 1801, your President Mr. 
