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Society, to introduce and extend through the country new 

 varieties of animals, but particularly of waterfowl, which 

 furnish so vast a proportion of food and luxuries to man, 

 without encroaching on the domains of the other divisions of 

 the animal kingdom, or on the food of man. 



Laying these views before you, the Council ask for your sub- 

 scription towards the erection of the Boundary Fence. They 

 have no fund whatever, available for the purpose. All the 

 funds at their command are scarcely sufficient for the present 

 maintenance of the Gardens. 



There is one other consideration on which the Council would 

 ask for your support. 



From the foundation of the Zoological Society to the present 

 time, a period of thixty-two years, its successive Councils, have 

 kept in view as their foremost object, the intellectual recreation 

 and instruction of the working classes. They were the first in 

 the United Kingdom to open their Gardens on Sundays after 

 the hour of Divine Service, to win those classes from the bad 

 air of cities and destructive neighbourhood of whiskey and gin 

 shops, to pure air and purer enjoyments, and in addition, on 

 every week day in summer, the Gardens are open from 6 o'clock 

 to dusk, at a rate accessible to all — one penny ; while, still 

 further, the children from all public Charitable Institutions are 

 admitted gratis, in charge of their teachers. 



A sum of at least four hundred pounds will be required for 

 the proposed improvement. 



Your contribution is solicited, and as soon as convenient. 

 The Council will not commence the undertaking until they feel 

 assured they can command success. 



The Members of the Council, the Honorary Secretaries, Mr. 

 Montgomery, Secretary, will receive subscriptions ; and the 

 Superintendent, Mr. Batho, at the Gardens, is also authorised to 

 receive Subscriptions and give receipts. 



HANS IRVINE, M.B. 1 „ ~ 



_ _ > Hon. Secretaries. 



B. M'DOWEL, M.D. J 



JAMES W. MURLAND, -v 



25, Fitzwilliam-square. 



ROBERT D. LYONS, \ Hon ' Treamrers - 



8, Merrion-square, Wost. ) 



