THE 
Zoological Sf Jicclimatisation Society 
OF VICTORIA. 
Offices : Zoological Gardens, Melbourne. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
FOR 1904. 
JI^HE Council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of 
Victoria begs to submit its Forty First Annual Report to the 
Parliament, the Subscribers, and the Public. 
The Council deeply regret to record the death of Col. R. Rede, 
in July last, who has been a highly esteemed member of the 
Council for several years past. Mr. F. W. Were was unanimously 
elected, in September last, to the’vacant seat in the Council. 
'Phe lion. Wm. Pitt, M.L.C., was appointed by the Covern- 
ment as one of its representatives on the Council in the i)lace of 
the late C. M. Officer. 
The Council is glad to state that the Government has restored 
its Annual Grant to what it has generally been of late years, namely, 
.;^3.5oo- 
'I'he Government has had the Reserve at Gembrook, which 
formerly belonged to the Society, surveyed into small blocks for 
sale, and when sold the Council hopes to obtain the ;^iooo, 
secured by Act of Parliament in 1884 . 
