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Dr. Irvine stated that a lady had promised them £50 when 

 £350 had been collected. 



Dr. Kennedy asked what had been done with regard to rais- 

 ing the £400, and making the necessary fencing alluded to in the 

 report, and also if they intended throwing a bridge across the 

 lake? 



The President said they had invited estimates and plans from 

 several parties as regarded the wire fencing. With respect to 

 the bridge, however desirable it might be to have such, he was 

 afraid their finances would not admit of the expense. 



Dr. Haughton adverted to the increased expense incurred in 

 the feeding of the animals, and thought that the attention of the 

 public should be directed to the fact, and their subscriptions 

 solicited. There had been, he regretted to say, a great falling 

 off in the amount of subscriptions, and he thought it only re- 

 quired an effort to be made to obtain sufficient funds for the 

 purposes of the Society. 



At five o'Clock, pursuant to the by-law of the Society, the 

 ballot for the Council for the ensuing year closed, and the follow- 

 ing were declared elected : — 



President — Viscount Powerscourt. Vice-Presidents — E. Call- 

 well, M.R.I. A. ; W. E.LeFanu, C.E.; Major- General Sir Thomas 

 Larcom, K.C.B. ; J. W. Murland, Esq.; E. Templeton, M.D., 

 Deputy Inspector-General. Secretaries — Professor M 'Dowel, 

 M.D. ; Eev. S. Haughton, M.D., F.E.S. Treasurer— Gilbert 

 Sanders, M.E.I.A. Council — Professor Banks, M.D. ; Professor 

 Benson, M.D. ; C. P. Croker, M.D. ; A. W. Foot, M.B. ; John 

 Good, Esq. ; G. W. Hatchell, M.D. ; E. Hutton, M.D. ; Hans 

 Irvine, M.B. ; Archibald H. Jacob, M.D. ; J. Beete Jukes, Esq., 

 M.A., F.R.S. ; John Lentaigne, D.L. ; J. A. Lyle, Esq.; Eobert 

 D. Lyons, M.B.; E. M'Donnell, M.D. ; M. J. O'Kelly, Esq. 



The proceedings then terminated. 



