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During the year the pupils of numerous charity and 
other schools were admitted to the Gardens either free 
or at greatly reduced prices. 
Addresses to His Royal Highness the Prince of 
Wales and to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant 
were presented during the year—in April and July 
respectively—by your Council, on behalf of the Society, 
The presentation of the former was entrusted to a 
deputation which waited on His Royal Highness, 
and the latter was made to His Excellency in the 
Gardens, upon which occasion a public ‘Promenade was 
held. The text of these addresses is given below. 
By the permission of the President and Council of the 
Royal College of Surgeons, a Conversazione was given 
by the Members of the Society to their friends in the 
College Buildings during the month of April. About 
670 tickets were sold, and owing to the varied nature 
of the programme which was provided, the entertain- 
ment proved most successful, and an unexpended 
balance from the sale of tickets, amounting to £11 15s., 
was placed to the credit of the Society’s Special Fund. 
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Avppress To His Royat HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES BY THE 
CoUNCIL OF THE RoyaL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND, 
May IT PLEASE youR Roya HIGHNEss, 
We, the Council of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, 
in tendering our sincere congratulations on your present visit to 
Ireland, beg leave to offer our respectful welcome. 
We remember with gratitude the valuable favours bestowed 
upon our gardens by your Royal Highness and his Royal Highness 
the Duke of Edinburgh ; and we are well aware of the sympathy of 
your Royal Highness with societies like ours, founded for the purpose 
of promoting the study of practical zoology by observation of wild 
animals, and lectures explaining their habits in a state of nature. 
We, therefore, venture to express the hope that your Royal 
Highness will honour our gardens with a visit. 
Signed, 
S. Haventon, Clk., M.D., F.R.S., President. 
V. Batt, M,A., F.R.S., Secretary, 
H. M, Barton, Treasurer, 
