THE 
JimlotMal atttl ^tdiuiatisatidti^d^eio of? ktojjia* 
Offices: Zoological Gardens, Melbourne. 
REPORT OP THE COUNCIL, 
For 1898. 
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HE Council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society 
has much pleasure in submitting the Thirty-fifth Annual 
Report to the Subscribers. 
The Society’s income has remained about the same 
as last year—a little under ^5000; but from the way the new 
year has commenced, it is hoped there will be an improvement. 
The Gardens are in excellent order throughout, and the Zoological 
collection has been very much increased of late. 
The Director, Mr. Le Souef, returned from Singapore on the 
10th of last March, bringing with him several large Ourang-utans, 
a pair of Black Leopards, a pair of Equine Deer, a Sun Bear, 
a fine Clouded Leopard, several Cassowaries, a Reticulated Python 
(nearly twenty feet in length), several Pig-tailed Monkeys, a male 
Anoa (from the Celebes), and some birds. 
Early in June last an invitation was received from the Secretary 
of State for the Colonies, the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, 
through His Excellency the Governor, and forwarded by the Right 
Hon. the Premier, for a representative of the Society to attend a 
Zoological Congress, to be held at Cambridge, in August; and it 
was decided, after due consideration, to accept the invitation, and 
to send Mr. Dudley Le Souef, the Assistant-Director of the 
Society. He therefore left Melbourne on June 28th, taking with 
him a number of interesting animals and birds as exchanges, and 
arrived in London on the 20th of August, two days before the 
opening of the Congress at Cambridge, which he attended as the 
