15 
On comparing this table with that already given, it 
will be seen that during the first ten years of the 
existence of the Society the Entrance Fees and Sub- 
scriptions amounted (on an average) to £503 14s. 6d. 
per annum ; and that during the last ten years of its 
existence they amounted to £474 8s. Od. 
This fact does not reflect much credit on the Zoo- 
logical tastes of the wealthier citizens of Dublin. 
From the commencement of the Society, it was felt 
that Zoological science should be cultivated; not merely 
by the collection and exhibition of living animals in 
the Gardens, but also by means of “ scientific meetings, 
at which papers upon Zoology should be read, and dis- 
cussions take place upon their contents,” as we are 
informed by the first annual report, which further con- 
tains a project ‘for the purchase of four gold medals, 
to be given to the writers of the four best essays upon 
given subjects.” 
In conformity with the plan sketched out in the first 
report, papers were read at meetings of the Society 
(1833-4), by Dr. (afterwards Sir Henry) Marsu, Dr. 
Macartney, Dr. Hart, and Dr. Houston; and an Essay 
was received (written by a London Naturalist) on the 
Crustacea, competing for one of the gold medals 
promised by the Society. 
The Council report that “the Essay in question was 
one of very great merit, and would have been gladly 
laid before the Society had not the Council considered 
it defective, inasmuch as its reasouings (forcible in 
themselves) were not sufliciently grounded on direct 
observation or experiment.” 
