THE 
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Offices: Zoological Gardens, Melbourne. 
I^EP0RT 0F THE 60UNCIL 
FOR 1901. 
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HE Council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of 
Victoria has much pleasure in submitting its thirty-eighth 
Report to the subscribers and the public. 
The Council is gratified that His Excellency Sir George 
Sydenham Clarke, the Governor of Victoria, has kindly consented 
to become the Patron of the Society in succession to His Excel¬ 
lency Lord Brassey. 
The past year has been an important one in the annals of the 
Society. Special efforts were made to make the Gardens as 
attractive as possible before the arrival of Their Royal Highnesses 
the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York and the large influx 
of visitors to Melbourne at that time. The Government generously 
assisted the Society by giving it a special grant of ^500 for that 
purpose. 
Several new aviaries were built and others much altered and 
improved, while the numerous flower beds were made even more 
beautiful than before. A considerable number of additions 
were made to the Zoological collection, the result being that the 
Gardens have been justly very much admired. They were visited 
by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall and York, 
accompanied by Her Excellency the Countess of Hopetoun. The 
distinguished visitors were shown over the Gardens by the 
President and members of the Council and the Directors of the 
Society, and, on leaving, Iler Royal Highness expressed, the great 
