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the Society by the Earl of Clarendon, and the expenses 

 of their carriage from London were defrayed by the 

 liberality of your President, Viscount Powerscourt. 



In compliance with suggestions made by several 

 Members at the last meeting of the Society, the 

 Donations to the Gardens (nineteen in number), have 

 been regularly noticed in the public press, so that 

 Members of the Society can now learn the names of 

 the several additions to their stock, previous to visit- 

 ing the newly arrived animals in the Gardens. 



On the 16th June last, your fertile Lioness presented 

 the Society with five cubs, having already produced 

 four others some eight months previously, and it is 

 confidently expected that she will present us with 

 another donation early in the coming year. 



Your Council have much pleasure in recalling to 

 the recollection of the Society, their unprecedented 

 success in breeding Lions during the past nine years, 

 as shown by the following list of healthy cubs born in 

 your Gardens : — 



1. 20th September, 1S58 ... ... 4 Cubs. 



2. 8th September, 1859 



3. 18th May, 1861 



4. 19th December, 1861 



5. 30th May, 1862 



6. 8th July, 1862 



7. 3rd August, 1863 



8. 5th September, 1863 



9. 2nd April, 1864 



10. 3rd April, 1864 



11. 2nd October, 1866 

 IS. 16th June. 1867 



Total 



