ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. 



The Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the Royal Zoological 

 Society was held in the Board-room of the Royal Dublin Society 

 on the second Tuesday in May, ] 864, 



The President, Dr. Corrigan, in the Chair. 



Professor M'Dowel, one of the Honorary Secretaries, read 

 the following 



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Report af (tonal 



The Council of the Royal Zoological Society beg 

 to submit to the Members their Report for the year 

 ending May 1st, 1864. 



During the past year the number of visiters to the 

 Gardens amounted to 115,652 persons, who are thus 

 classified : — 



Admitted free on Members' privileges ... 3,550 

 ,, free, from Schools and Public Insti- 

 tutions ... ... ... 1,483 



. , f Annual Promenade \ rn 



,, at Is. J | 50 



„ at the ordinary rate of 6d. ... 14,433 



,, at the reduced rate of Id. ... 95,972 



In these numbers a very considerable reduction 

 will be observed as compared with the past and with 

 some former years, especially in the admissions at the 

 Id. rate; but your Council believe that this is not 

 owing to the Gardens having lost their attractiveness, 

 or to any diminution in the public taste for objects of 

 Natural History, but mainly to the circumstance of 



