THE 
Offices: Zoological Gardens, Melbourne. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
FOR 1900 . 
Read at the Annual Meeting of the Society, held on 
Monday, the 4TH February, 1901. 
f HE Council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of 
Victoria has the honour to submit its Thirty-seventh 
Annual Report to the Subscribers. 
The usual Parliamentary visit to the Zoological Gardens 
was not held last year, in consequence of the Elections taking 
place in October, and the new Parliament only being in session a 
short time before the Prorogation took place; but it is intended to 
invite both the members of the Federal Parliament as well as those 
of the Victorian Legislature to visit the Gardens in April or May 
next, when it is hoped that a large number will be present. It is 
also the wish of the Council and the Directors to make the 
collection of Australian animals and birds as perfect as possible 
before that time; and they will be glad to accept any specimens 
that their country friends may be able to send them. It is also 
proposed to erect a new Parrot aviary, in which the various species 
can be kept separate, as well as to considerably alter many of the 
old aviaries at present in use. 
During the past year many improvements have been effected. 
Two of the large ponds for waterfowl were emptied and thoroughly 
cleaned out, which necessitated the removal of many hundred loads 
