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they recognised in a sister royal and partly private 
society, when they deposited the Plestosaurus, in 
trust, in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society. 
The Managers of the New National Museum con- 
curred in the feeling of your Council, and offered 
to give £200 purchase-money for the Plestosaurus, 
in order that it might continue to be exhibited in 
the same place as heretofore. 
Your Council accepted this offer, and believe 
that in so doing they carry out, in the best 
manner, the double intention of Sir Purp 
Crampton, which was to advance the study of 
Natural Science in Dublin, and to confer a benefit 
on the Zoological Gardens, of which he was the 
distinguished founder. 
