APPENDIX A. 



$topl ^logical Sonets of Jrelaitrj. 



" Report of the Treasury Commission appointed to inquire into The 

 Royal Dublin Society, Museum of Irish Industry, Royal 

 Hibernian Academy, Royal Irish Academy, and the System of 

 Scientific Instruction in Ireland, 18th October, 1862." 



At a Meeting of the Council of The Royal Zoological Society, 

 held 18th day of July, 1863, the Council considered the above 

 Report, in which the following paragraph, having reference to 

 the Royal Zoological Society, occurs : — 



"The Annual Grant to the Zoological Society is voted in the 

 " estimate of the Royal Dublin Society ; but besides acting as 

 " the channel for its payment, that Society does not exercise any 

 "interference with regard to it. Some advantage would be 

 " gained if all the Parliamentary Grants in aid of Science and 

 " Art at Dublin were in like manner included in the estimate of 

 " the Royal Dublin Society, and were paid through its medium, 

 "inasmuch as they would then be annually brought under con- 

 " sideration in one point of view, and the Council of the Royal 

 " Dublin Society would have an opportunity of making any re- 

 " presentation which the circumstances of the time might render 

 " proper in reference to them. Beyond this we cannot advise 

 " that the Royal Dublin Society should be vested with any con- 

 " trol over the proceedings of other Societies." — Vide pp. 33, 34. 



