[Saunders' News-Letter, Wednesday, May 6, 1840]. 

 ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. 



The Annual Meeting of the above Society took place at 

 the rooms of the Dublin Natural History Society, 

 Clarendon's Buildings, Brunswick Street, yesterday. 



Amongst the persons present we observed His Grace 

 the Archbishop of Dublin, Sir Philip Crampton, Bart., 

 J. Corrigan, m.d., E. C. Croker, m.d., Leland Crosthwaite, 

 J. C. Ferguson, m.d., Robert Guinness, Surgeon Hargrave, 

 Professor Harrison, G. Hatchell, m.d., P. Hunt, m.d., 

 R. S. Ireland, m.d., H. Irvine, m.d., A. Jacob, m.d., 

 E. Kennedy, m.d., Acheson Lyle, E. Murphy, m.d., John 

 N. Owen, m.d., Surgeon Palmer, Robert Reid, m.d., 

 Surgeon Stewart, Surgeon Wilmot, Surgeon Wilde, Sec. 



The chair was taken at half past two o'clock by the 

 President, His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin. 



R. Ball, Esq., one of the Secretaries read the annual 

 report, which is as follows : — 



REPORT, 1840. 



Your Council, in accordance with annual custom, come 

 before you to make their report. On entering their year 

 of office they found themselves considerably in debt, their 

 Treasurer being in advance £186 and other demands out- 

 standing against them ; yet cheered by the hope of public 

 opinion being in their favour, they looked forward to 

 surmounting their difficulties, but the extreme wetness of 

 the season rendered their efforts abortive, and in July they 

 found that their receipts did not meet their expenditure ; 

 consequently debt was accumulating, and no hope appeared 

 of providing for the winter. After much serious considera- 

 tion at many meetings on the subject, and mindful of the 

 late President's published statement, that the Council 

 should rather close the Gardens than again plunge the 

 Society into debt, but unwilling to resort to such an 

 extremity they boldly determined to effect such reduction 

 as in their opinion would not materially injure the 

 Society, while it would save it from the utter failure which 



