42 Royal Zoological Society of Ireland 



£ s. d. £ s. d. 



Forward 1429 9 3 



Expenditure. 



Balance against the Society last year 16 12 llj 



Food for animals ... ... ••• 5S6 10 3A 



Incidental expenses ... --■ 165 14 Hi 



Salaries and wages ... ... 325 5 10i 



Building Giraffe House ... 370 17 6£ 



Animals purchased this year ... 21 11 3 



Debenture No. 21 paid off, having been 

 handed by Richard Kane, Esq., as 

 a donation towards building the 

 Giraffe House ... ... 25 



Interest on Debentures this year al- 

 lowed in subscriptions, Donations, 



&c 24 4 



1535 16 10 



Balance against the Society ... ... £106 7 7 



NUMBER OF ANIMALS IN THE GARDENS. 



Birds ... ... ... 170 



Other Animals ... ... ... ■■• 75 



LIST OF DONATIONS AND DONORS, 1845-6. 



Richard Allen, Esq.. English squirrel ; Browne, 



Esq., green monkey : A. Butwel, Esq., pair of tortoises ; 

 Leland Crosthwaite, Esq., pair of sheldrakes, pair of 

 water hens, young rabbit, and three ring doves ; Sir P. 

 Crampton, jerboa; James Egan, Esq., English squirrel; 

 Edward Elliott, pair of young owls; Dr. Garsten, wild 



duck; Garnet, Esq., badger; Gernon, Esq., 



three mistletoe thrushes; Edward Getty, Esq., gennet ; 



Hamilton, Esq., woodcock ; W. F. Jennings, Esq., 



racoon; Lord Langford, boa; - Mathew, Esq., tortoise: 



M'Dougall, Esq., English squirrel and cage : 



M'Gloin, Esq., seagull; Thomas Morris, Esq., heron and 



hare ; Molloy, Esq., pair of Hong Kong geese ; Miss 



Sigismond, ring-tailed monkey: William O'Hanlon, Esq., 

 owl: — O'Higgins, Esq., pair of gulls; Alexander 

 Parker, three nightingales ; Sir George Preston, mastiff 



dog ; Rooney, Esq., racoon ; W. Russell, land rail ; 



Francis Rutledge, Esq., land tortoise ; Thomas Taylor, 

 Esq., a quantity of Dahlia roots ; Rev. E. Tandy, buck 

 hound ; Surgeon Wilmot, three ground doves. 



