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the Council had attended to their duties from week to week, and to 
the various subjects discussed. No doubt a great deal of the suc¬ 
cess of the Society was attributable to the confidence and assurance 
felt in the fact that the Council attended energetically to the ad¬ 
vancement of the objects of the Society. Ho was well aware that 
amoug the most eminent of those who had done so much for the 
association must be recorded the name of their late president, Mr. 
Edward Wilson, aud he desired to state his concurrence with the 
sentiment expressed by the Council at the loss of so zealous and 
experienced a co-operator. At the same time, he congratulated the 
Society on having secured, as a successor to Mr. Wilson, a gentleman 
with so high a personal and public reputation as Mr. Haines. No 
doubt under his auspices, and the active exertions of Mr. Wilson, and 
such gentlemen as Dr. Black and others who had done so much, the 
Society would continue to flourish and command the respect of the 
public with an equal degree of success to that enjoyed during the 
past year. For himself, he had to thank the Council for having, in 
accordance with the request made by him at the last annual meet¬ 
ing, offered him ample information to be sent through Her 
Majesty’s Government at home to the British Acclimatisation 
Society, as to the animals and vegetable objects in this colony which 
were likely to be suitable for acclimatisation in the mother country 
and Europe. According, also, to the expressed wish of the Society, 
he had requested of Hor Majesty’s Government that the Reports 
received from other colonies, and Her Majesty’s diplomatic represen¬ 
tatives abroad with the various Governments with which Her 
Majesty’s Government was in communication, might be sent to this 
Society. As yet he had received no reply, but he had not the slightest 
doubt that if replies were not sent through the Government the 
Society would in due course receive them from the acclimatisation 
society at home. With these few observations he would call on the 
secretary to read the report. 
The Secretary (Mr. Geo. Sprigg) then read the report. (See p. 5.) 
On the motion of Mr. Stutzer, seconded by Mr. Steavenson, the 
report was adopted. 
Dr. Madden moved that the election of the Hon. W. C. Haines, 
Dr. J. Black, Mr. D. S. Campbell, Mr. Thomas Loader, and Mr. H. 
E. Watts, as members of the Council, be confirmed. 
The motion was seconded by Lieutenant-Colonel Champ, and 
carried. 
Mr. Steavenson then moved, that Messrs. G. S. Lang, J. Sparkes, 
and A. E. C. Selwyn be elected to fill the vacant seats in the Council. 
