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Calcutta, on the 22nd March last. This fine 

 animal, whose native name was " Beharee Loll," 

 was captured on the 7th January, 1868, in the 

 Surrundur Jungles, in the Maughur Grhattee 

 District, in the Tributary Mehals, with a herd of 

 fifty-six, by the late Cuttack Khedda Establish- 

 ment. 



The herd, consisting of fifty-six elephants, was 

 discovered in the above-named jungles on the 31st 

 December,1867,andthe whole herd was captured on 

 the 7th January, 1868. Marksman's mother was 

 captured with the herd, and by her side she had 

 a calf one year old. Both mother and calf died 

 shortly after their capture, and poor "Marksman" 

 himself died also on his passage to England, about 

 one month after leaving Calcutta, in the good ship 

 "Carlisle Castle." 



Your Council deeply regret his loss, but feel 

 that their obligations to the Earl of Mayo, the 

 Irish Viceroy of India, are as great as if his kind 

 intentions towards the Dublin Zoological Gardens 

 had been completely fulfilled. 



Scientific Evening Meetings were held during 

 the year (in March, June, and December), in con- 

 junction with the Royal Geological Society of 

 Ireland. These meetings were largely attended 

 by the members of both Societies, and it is pro- 

 posed to continue them in the corresponding 

 months of the coming year. 



