Saunders' News-Letter, Wednesday, May 6, 1846\ 

 ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of this Society was 

 yesterday held in the Boardroom of the Royal Dublin 

 Society at two o'clock to read and adopt the annual 

 Report and ballot for a new Council. 



Sir Philip Crampton, Bart., President, in the chair. 



Mr. Ball, Secretary, read the following report: — 



SIXTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY OF IRELAND. 



' Your Council in laying before you a Report of their 

 proceedings for the last year regret they cannot boast, as 

 their predecessors have been able to do for the last four 

 anniversaries, that their expenditure has been less than 

 their receipts ; the excess, however (£89 14s. 8d.) is of no 

 great importance, and the less so as the acquired property 

 of the Society during the period has been considerable. 

 The Council, though they have not been able to command 

 great success, feel conscious that they have deserved it, 

 and they confidently assert that this is the result of having 

 followed out the principles which have guided the Councils 

 for the last few years, in giving all possible freedom of 

 access to the Gardens, as a source of instructive and 

 rational recreation to as many of their fellow-citizens 

 as a regard to the funds absolutely necessary for the 

 maintenance of the Institution would permit. 



' Your Council have always kept in view that the 

 Society was founded, and should be carried on, not for 

 the benefit of members, but for the general advancement 

 of natural knowledge, and they feel persuaded that it 

 must be manifest that the objects of the founders, and of 

 those who have most laboured in the service of the 

 Society, have been without any personal motive beyond 

 the great reward of doing good to their fellows. 



" During the past year a very ornamental house has 

 been erected for the Giraffe, smaller in size than the 



