[Saunders' News-Letter, Wednesday, May 5th, 1841.} 

 ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The Annual Meeting of the Royal Zoological Society of 

 Ireland was held at the rooms of the Geological Society 

 yesterday, Acheson Lyle, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 

 The following Report was read and adopted : — 



REPORT 



of the Council of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland 

 for the year ending 1st May. 



Your Council, in compliance with annual custom, pre- 

 sent to you the following Report : — It is with much 

 satisfaction they have to notice the success of the measure 

 of opening the Gardens at hours suitable to the working 

 classes, at one penny admission, since the 1st of May 

 last. This gratification does not arise so much from the 

 effect on the funds of the Society as from a feeling that 

 the admission of not less than 100.000 persons this year 

 is a carrying out of the great principle of the Society, the 

 spread of useful information ; and they consider this 

 manner of doing it particularly desirable at the present 

 time, as it supplies a powerful aid to the confirming of 

 the people in their improved habits, and is in accordance 

 with the views of those enlightened men who urge the 

 necessity of providing the people with places of rational 

 recreation. The Council have further pleasure in stating 

 that although on many occasions upwards of 3,000 persons 

 have been in the Gardens at a time, no injury has 

 resulted to the grounds or animals. Your Council, with 

 a view to the promotion of geological science, have at a 

 small expense converted a portion of the Superintendent's 

 house into a very commodious lecture room, in which 

 they had hoped last year to have had useful and attractive 

 morning lectures ; but circumstances occurred to delay 

 this until it was too late in the season. They hope, 

 however, that they have taken such measures as will 

 enable the Council about to be appointed to open a course 

 immediately, and to commence with a systematic set of 



