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reply that can be made to them is, that every principal article of 
food, and also the material for our valuable exports, is the result 
of acclimatisation. But for the animal and vegetable products 
introduced into this colony, from its earliest formation, and by 
which means the later and now flourishing colonies have been 
supplied, we should have been, if existing, a mere nomade and 
scanty population; and instead of our thousands of wealthy 
people, there would have been a wandering, half-starved race, 
subsisting, like the aborigines, upon the produce of the chase, 
roots, and grubs, and clothed in opossum, squirrel, and kangaroo 
skins ; for our turkeys, geese, ducks, fowls, our horses, cattle, 
sheep, goats, hogs, <fec., are the results of acclimatisation, as also 
the importation of donkeys. The wheat, barley, and other 
cereals, our cabbages, turnips, carrots, and other esculent vege¬ 
tables, as well as oranges, apples, pears, peaches, grapes 
(producing our variety of wines); indeed, all our fine fruits, and 
all our exports, are the result of the art of acclimatisation — to 
which the society in course of formation are desirous of adding 
other products, both of the animal and vegetable kingdom. valuable 
as material for manufacture, and increasing the quantity, quality, 
and variety of our food; for all the principal material for the 
necessities and luxuries of life obtained in this colony, are the 
result of acclimatisation. The Acclimatisation Society will be 
formed on the model of those of England and the Continent, as 
follows:— 
1. For the introduction, acclimatisation, and domestication 
of all useful animals, birds, fishes, insects, and vegetables, 
whether profitable or ornamental. 
2. The perfection, propagation, and hybridisation of races 
newly introduced or already domesticated. 
g The spread of indigenous animals from parts of the colony 
where they are abundant to other localities where they are 
not known. 
4. The procuration, by purchase, gift, or exchange, of animals, 
&c., from foreign countries. 
f>. The transmission of animals, &c., from the colony to various 
parts of the world, in exchange for others sent to the 
society. 
(3. The holding of periodical meetings, the publication oi 
reports and transactions, for the purpose of spreading 
knowledge of acclimatisation, and to inquire into the 
causes of success or failure. 
