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Zoological and Acclimatisation Society 
or VICTORIA. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
FOR 1905. 
T IIK Council of The Zoological and Acclimatisation vSociety of 
\’ictoria begs to submit its Forty-seconcl Annual Report to 
the Parliament, the Subscribers, and the Public. 
As the greater part of the Reserve at (leinbrook that was 
vested in the Society has been sold by the ('*overnment, the 
Council hopes soon to obtain the £1000. secured by Act of 
Parliament in 1884, it being urgently required. 
Many improvements have been effected in the (;ardens 
during the past 3 ’ear. A considerable portion of the boundary 
fence has been renewed, the old fence having been erected 
more than forty 3 'ears ago. 
A large shed has been erected for storing hay, chaff, and 
other fodder, additions have also been made to the other 
buildings where the working plant is kept. 
The old band stand in the l^dephant’s ring has been re¬ 
moved and a more suitalde one erected in its place, and the 
music is now heard JLo more advantage. 
The building forming the station of the circular railway’, and 
the platform for the Hleijhant riders has been considerably' en¬ 
larged, and its use indicated suitably on it. 
Several of the old u-ooden fences in front of the cages have 
been removed and iron ones .sub.stituted, also the cresting on 
many of the fences has been renewed. 
The lower portions of the walls in the interior of the 
larger Carnivora House have been cased with white glass opal¬ 
ine tiling, and the uiiper portions of the walls newly' painted. 
