REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 
FOR THE YEAR EKDING 31st AUGUST, 1S64. 
The Council of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, in 
submitting to the Subscribers the Third Annual Report of their 
transactions, remind the Members that, owing to an alteration made 
at the last Annual Meeting, by which the commencement of the 
Society’s year was mado to date from September instead of July, 
this Report will be a record of what has been done during the 
last fourteen months, and the Council trust that a perusal of it 
will prove that much progress has been made, and many important 
results achieved. 
The financial position of the Society is very satisfactory : a large 
increase has taken place in the private subscriptions, and the 
Council feel justified in accepting this fact as a proof of the 
growing interest felt in acclimatisation, and the increasing import¬ 
ance attached to it. The total receipts, including balance from 
last year, from all sources, has been £5,386 4s. Id. The total 
expenditure, £4,689 19s. 2d., thus leaving a balance to the credit 
of the Society of £696 4s. lid. The Council would observe, that 
of the amount placed as expended under the head of Purchase of 
Animals, the sum of £600 still remains in the hands of the agents 
abroad. 
At the last Annual Meeting, as has been already mentioned, 
several changes were made in the Rules of the Society, the most 
important of which were the abolition of the office of Honorary 
Secretary, and the appointment of a second Vice-President. The 
post of Honorary Secretary was vacated by Mr. W. H. Archer, not 
however without a cordial vote of thanks having been conveyed to 
that gentleman by the Council, for the efficient manner in which he 
had fulfilled the duties of the office since the foundation of the 
Society. The additional Vice-Presidency was conferred upon Dr. 
Thomas Black, as an acknowledgment of the important services he 
has so constantly rendered to the cause of Acclimatisation. 
