Zoological $ Acclimatisation Socictp 
OF VICTORIA. 
Offices: Zoological Gardens, Melbourne. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
FOR 1902. 
T HE Council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of 
Victoria has much pleasure in submitting its Thirty-ninth 
Annual Report to the subscribers and the public. 
The Council records with great sorrow the death of Mr. A. A. C. 
Le Souef, which occurred in May of last year; he had been 
Director of the Society since 1870. Under his untiring care the 
Gardens had become the best known and complete in the Southern 
Hemisphere, and the finest zoological collection. 
Mr. Dudley Le Souef, the eldest son, has been appointed 
Director in his fathers place; and a younger son, Mr. A. S. Le 
Souef, has been made Assistant-Director and Accountant. These 
gentlemen ave been in the Society’s office for some years, and 
both a PP® ar to.have mherited their father’s genius in the manage¬ 
ment of Zoological Gardens. 
In consequence of the state of the finances, through the Govern¬ 
ment vote aving >een reduced, and also a decreased amount being 
taken at the gates, the Council reluctantly decided not to hole 
the usual I arhamentary visit to the Gardens, and it has had the 
greatest di lculty, even with the strictest economy, to make tw< 
ends mee , c a e same time not to lessen the efficiency of th< 
Gardens. ie ouncil finds it difficult, with its limited income 
to replace animals that die from time to time. 
