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Zoological and Acclimatisation Society 
OF VICTORIA. 
REPORT 
COUNCIL 
FOR 1907. 
Council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of 
J- Victoria begs to submit its Forty-fourth Annual Report to the 
Subscribers and the Public. 
The Director of the Gardens was sent last year to visit the jiriu- 
cipal Zoological Gardens in other parts of the world, and was en¬ 
abled to see those in Japan, the United States, England, on the 
Continent, and at Gizeh, near Cairo, returning to Melbourne on New 
Year's Eve. His trip has been a success in every^ way% for not 
only has he been able to get a large number of animals and birds 
for these Gardens in exchange, but has also been able to obtain 
photographs and other details of all new structures, especially in 
America, which will be a great help in future buildings in the 
Gardens. He was also enabled to visit both .salt and fresh-water 
fish hatcheries in Europe and America, and has brought back 
much information concerning them. He also visited the Inter¬ 
national Zoological Congress at Boston, by invitation, on August 
24th, and met representatives of the Zoological Gardens of Europe 
and America, with whom'he exchanged experiences, thus acquiring 
much information of great use to the Society, which could not 
have been obtained merely by correspondence. The Director, in 
tlie intervals of his other duties, managed to deliver a few interest¬ 
ing lectures diversified with magic lantern views, in Hong Kong, 
New York and Eondon, thus helping to make the Society and its 
objects known. 
The Government has kindly granted the Society an extra 
vote of a thousand pounds for special work that was much heeded 
