The 
Royal Zoological & Acclimatisation Society 
OF VICTORIA. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
FOR 1910. 
The Council of the Royal Zoological and Acclimatisation 
Society of Victoria beg to submit the Forty-seventh Annual 
Report to the subscribers and the public. 
The Society has suffered a severe loss in the death of its 
President, Mr, F. R. Godfrey, who for forty years had been an 
active member of its Council. Except when absent from the 
State he rarely missed a Council Meeting, and it is difficult to 
estimate the value of his services to the Society. 
Another valued member of the Council, Mr. F. S. Grimwade, 
passed away during the year. He had been a member for 
many years, and always had the welfare of the Society at heart. 
Mr. J. V. Smith, on account of his frequent absences from the 
State, resigned his position on the Council in May last. 
The following gentlemen were elected to fill the vacancies on 
the Council, viz., Mr. E. J. Dunn, Mr. George Howat, and Mr. 
A. Rutter Clarke. 
In December last, Francis Meaker, the Society’s overseer, 
died ; he had been in the employ of the Society for over forty 
years, and was held in high esteem ; he was present when Burke 
and Wills started from the Royal Park on their memorable 
expedition. Mr. Andrew Wilkie has been appointed in his place. 
His late Majesty King Edward VII. was graciously pleased 
to grant to the Society a Royal charter and liberty to use the 
prefix “ Royal.” 
The Council waited on the Premier last April to request that 
a sum of 2500 be placed on the estimates to enable them to 
erect necessary buildings which are urgently needed. The 
