A medal worth £00 for the emu, or the rhea or South 
American Ostrich, oil the same conditions as the preceding. 
A medal worth £ 1.0 was offered for the introduction of any 
new species of silkworm producing a material that can be spun. 
A medal worth £20 for the acclimatisation in Europe or in 
Algeria of some wax-producing insect, not a bee, and a medal 
worth £00 for the introduction and acclimatisation of the cin¬ 
chona or Peruvian hark, producing quinine, in Europe or any 
of the European colonies. These premiums will give a stimulus 
to the introduction of valuable products, and must eventually 
be adopted by the society when formed in New South Wales. 
In a paper on acclimatisation in the “ Edinburgh Review” for 
January 1860, the author, enumerating the zoological gardens 
in Europe, states that they have been made more places of 
exhibition, than of reproduction and acclimatisation, and then 
surprises us with the fact, that “ practical results have, in fact, 
been so entirely lost sight of for ages, that the turkey, in the year 
1521, the muscovy duck in 1050, the gold pheasant in 1725, and 
the silver pheasant in 1740, are the only additions to our cata¬ 
logue ot domesticated animals since the Christian era.” 
Now, in the list of gallinaceous birds published by Prince 
Charles Bonaparte are enumerated 340 species. Of these we 
may take 230 or more to be inhabitants of sufficiently temperate 
regions to admit of their being acclimatised in this colony. 
They are eatable, prolific, and susceptible of confinement. 
Among birds, how many have we domesticated in Australia? 
First —Varieties of the domestic fowl; Second—The guinea fowl; 
Third —Geese and ducks ; Fourth—The peacock ; Fifth—The 
turkey, the only domesticated product of the New World ; and 
more recently have been introduced the common pheasant — 
golden and silver, and the ring-necked pheasants. 
It lias been correctly remarked, that 2000 years have only 
doubled, even in Europe, the four birds enjoyed by the ancients, 
and with the imperfect and limited machinery of the Zoological 
Society of London, the Monal or Impeyan pheasant, the cheer, 
and three species of kaleege have been brought from the 
Himalaya. During my recent visit to England, I found them 
effectually re ar i n g th^ir broods, and in a fair way (with a little 
effusion ot fresh blood among them) of becoming permanently 
added to the hitherto circumscribed list, as are the golden and 
silver pheasants and the turkey. 
Many persons have asked, what is the use of acclimatisation, 
or the utility of introducing blackbirds and thrushes? The only 
