[Saunders' News-Letter, Wednesday, May 6th, 1857.] 

 ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



A Meeting of the Zoological Society was held in the 

 Board Room of the Royal Dublin Society, on Tuesday 

 5th May. 



Dr. Beatty in the chair. 



Present— Mr. Warren; Mr. O'Brien; M. Good, Esq. 

 Charles Toole, Esq. ; Robert Moore, Esq., m.d. 

 — Brooks, Esq. ; M.J. O'Kelly, Esq.; Thomas Hutton, d.l. 

 J. S. Hughes, m.d. ; Mr. Porter; Alexander Carte, m.d. 

 Henry Kennedy, m.d.; John Barker, m.d. ; George Gar- 

 nett, Esq. ; Dr.' Woodroffe ; G. A. Kennedy, m.d. ; and the 

 Hon. Secretary, Hans Irvine, m.b. 



The following Report was read and unanimously 

 adopted : — 



' The Council in presenting this their Twenty-fifth 

 Annual Report, have to deplore the loss which the Society 

 has so recently sustained, and which is still painfully 

 fresh in all our minds. Our late indefatigable Hon. 

 Secretary, Robert Ball, ll.d., has been suddenly removed 

 from our circle by death in the strength and vigour of 

 his manhood and in the full career of his usefulness. He 

 died on the 30th of March last, after an illness of but three 

 days, having just completed his 55th year. For 20 years 

 he had filled the office of Hon. Sec. to this Society, and 

 during the whole of that long period he had laboured 

 gratuitously to promote its welfare and advancement. 

 With him the prosperity of the Zoological Gardens was a 

 personal concern. He devoted to them an amount of 

 constant superintendence and care such as few men 

 would have given, and such as cannot be purchased by 

 money. His motives for this exertion were a pure love 

 of science for its own sake, and a benevolent desire to 

 make that science as available as possible to the widest 

 circle of the public. With this view he was unceasing in 

 his efforts to render the gardens attractive— whether in 



