ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Report of Council, 1st May, 1855. 



The Council, in presenting the Twenty-third Annual 

 Report to the Society, feel that there has scarcely been 

 one of more importance. 



In the Report of last year the Council stated the 

 measures which had been taken with a view to procure 

 the aid of Government to the Society, and the strong 

 hope existing of obtaining the required assistance. This 

 hope has been realized, and the Society has received a 

 grant of £500, paid through the Royal Dublin Society, 

 and the arrangements then referred to, consequent on the 

 suggestions of the Board of Trade, have, on conference 

 with the Royal Dublin Society, been duly ratified, and are 

 here repeated, viz. : — 



' That members of the Royal Dublin Society, who are 

 not members of the Royal Zoological Society, be ad- 

 missible without payment of entrance fees, being enrolled 

 as annual members, on payment of £1, and as life 

 members on payment of £7." 



' That for the benefit of the working people the 

 Garden be open from 1st of May to 1st September at six 

 o'clock in the evening, for one penny, in addition to ad- 

 mission at that rate after two o'clock on Sundays. That 

 students in the School of Design be admitted free, on 

 presenting a certificate from the master of the school, 

 stating that such admission is desirable for the promotion 

 of their studies." 



For several years past attention has been directed to 

 make your grounds serve the purpose of a Winter Garden, 

 and the efforts to do so appeared to be eminently success- 

 ful, as at Christmas last the general verdant effect was 

 most satisfactory ; the subsequent frost destroyed many 

 of the evergreens, but measures have been adopted to 

 supply the losses sustained, and it is expected that the 

 result will in the end be an improvement to the general 

 effect. 



The experimental construction of Aquatic Vivaria, for 

 the exhibition of marine and fresh water animals, has 



