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DIEU ET
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
MON DROIT
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1863.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 3rd November, 1863.
THE following Despatch, with its en-
closure, from Her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for the Colonies is pub-
lished for general information.
WILLIAM FOX.
Downing Street,
7th August, 1863.
SIR,—With reference to my Circular Des-
patch of the 29th July, 1861, I transmit to you
herewith a series of enquiries which I have
received from the Acclimatisation Society,
and which at their request, I communicate
to you with the hope that you will return
such answers as you may be able to give on
the various points of enquiry submitted so
far as relates to the Colony under your
Government.
I transmit at the same time, at the request
of the Society, a copy of their Third Annual
Report, together with a copy of the Frst
Annual Report of the Acclimatisation Society
of Victoria.
I have, &c.,
NEWCASTLE.
Governor Sir George Grey,
K.C.B., &c., &c., &c.
ACCLIMATISATION.
Enquiries addressed to Her Majesty's Minister,
Governor, or Consul at
The Gentlemen to whom these questions
are addressed, are earnestly requested to
consider the high importance which will be
attatched to the answers which they may re-
turn, and the service which they will render
to the cause of Acclimatisation by endeavour-
ing to the utmost of their knowledge to make
those answers as full and otherwise as satis-
factory as possible.
The main purposes of Acclimatisation are
to introduce, acclimatise, and propagate in
the United Kingdom and its Dependencies
such Animals, Birds, Fishes, Insects, and
Vegetables as are likely to be of use or orna-
ment, whether for domestication or for vary-
ing the common food of the people, or for
manufacturing, or for any other useful pur-
pose; and whose constitution and habits
offer a reasonable prospect of successful
cultivation. It is obvious that in India,
Australia, Canada, the Cape, and other im-
portant Dependencies, unlimited scope is
afforded for almost any variety of experi-
ment.
It is confidently expected that the answers
returned to these questions by Her Majesty's
Ministers, Governors, and Consuls in differ-
ent parts of the world, will bring together a
mass of information on this interesting and
highly important branch of knowledge such
as never has been collected before, and the
benefit which these Gentlemen will thus
confer upon their fellow-countrymen will
be in proportion to the fullness and exact-
ness with which those answers are drawn up.
In replying to Questions 1, 2, 3, and 8, it
is particularly requested that those special
qualities which recommend the Quadrupeds,
Birds, Fishes, and vegetables as fit for food
or domestic utility may be described. As
regards Quadrupeds, Birds and Fishes, it will
be very desirable to collect all the informa-
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🏛️ Publication of Despatch regarding Acclimatisation Society Enquiries
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration3 November 1863
Acclimatisation Society, Despatch, Colonial Secretary, introduction of species, fauna, flora, official correspondence
- William Fox
- Newcastle
- Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.