Tae Annual Meeting of the Royan Zoonoaican Society 
or Inetanp was held in the College of Physicians on 
Tuesday, 10th January, 1882. 
Sir JOHN LENTAIGNE, C.B., Present, 
IN THE CHAIR, 
REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
It is now fifty years since the Zoological Society of 
Dublin came into existence ; its first President, Secretary, 
and Treasurer, being Surgeon Puinip Crampron, Captain 
Portiock, and James Piva. From the commencement, the 
Society aimed at a higher scientific level than it has ever, 
as yet, attained; and meetings at which questions of 
Zoology should be discussed were contemplated as part of 
its proceedings. 
The following paragraph, taken from the Second Annual 
Report, 1834, shows clearly the intentions of the founders. 
“ Great and important as theimmediate concerns of the Society 
and its Collection assuredly are. the Council has not lost sight 
of those still higher objects, which, as a literary and scientific 
body, the Society must necessarily seek to attain. They are, 
indeed, but a part of the same scheme, the collection being, as it 
were, an introduction to those exercises of the mind, which the 
hope of attaining fame through the acquisition of the Medals 
offered by the Society, will call forth, and a preparation for 
the full enjoyment of the advantages which its public scientific 
Meetings must necessarily afford to the enlightened mind.” 
These bland hopes of Captain Porrtock never bore fruit, 
the Medals of the Society did not stimulate Zoological 
research, and as time went on, it became evident that the 
citizens of Dublin were content to limit their ideas of 
