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The Report further goes on to observe upon the benefits that 

 would be likely to arise from an " affiliation '' of other Societies 

 to the Eoyal Dublin Society. 



The paragraph above quoted proposes to give a power (not 

 hitherto possessed by it) to the Council of the Eoyal Dublin 

 Society of commenting upon or making representations upon the 

 management or proceedings of the Eoyal Zoological Society, 

 and therefore exercising a certain control over it. 



Eesolved — That in the view here put forward by the Com- 

 missioners the Council of the Eoyal Zoological Society cannot 

 concur, and for the following reasons : 



1st. — The Royal Zoological Society was founded in the year 

 1831, altogether by private voluntary donations and subscrip- 

 tions, without any aid from, or any connexion with any other 

 society. 



2nd. — It has been always managed, and is still managed by a 

 Council elected annually by the Members at large, to whom the 

 Council make an annual report, and the Council cannot admit 

 the competency or right of the Council of the Royal Dublin 

 Society to " make any representation " upon its affairs. 



3rd In the year 1854, twenty-second year after its founda- 

 tion, the Government, impressed with the good management and 

 usefulness of the Society, conferred on it an annual grant of 

 £500, which, for the convenience of official management, has 

 been and is paid through the agency of the Eoyal Dublin Society. 

 This arrangement for financial convenience appears, however, to 

 the Council, to be no more a reason for giving any control over 

 its proceedings to the Council of the Eoyal Dublin Society than 

 it would be for giving a supervision over the Zoological Society 

 to the Directors of the Bank of Ireland, if the Bank were made 

 the medium of paying its annual grant. Moreover, in the minute 

 of the Board of Trade announcing the grant in aid, the perfect 

 independence of the Eoyal Zoological Society was provided for, 

 in compliance with the representation of the Council of the 

 Zoological Society. The minute of the Board of Trade of 11th 

 April, 1854, observes, " My Lords will recommend that an aid 

 be given to the Gardens of the Eoyal Zoological Society through 

 the agency of the Eoyal Dublin Society, if that body will accept 



