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Leopard, a Puma, a young Polar Bear, and three 
Reindeer. These are all doing well, and are in excellent 
health at the present moment. 
Those who have recently seen the Ourang Outang 
need no information as to his state of health. Since 
he came to the gardens, eighteen months ago, his 
increase in size has been most remarkable. Bearing in 
mind how difficult it is generally found to be to keep 
these animals for any long period in good condition, our 
success is a matter for considerable satisfaction. 
Addresses—During the year two addresses were 
respectively delivered by the Council on behalf of the 
Society, to their Excellencies the Earl of Aberdeen and 
the Marquis of Londonderry, both of whom are now 
enrolled as Life Members of the Society. 
The address to Lord Aberdeen, which was read on the 
occasion of a public promenade on the 12th of April, 
was as follows :— 
May IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY, 
We, the President, Vice-Presidents, and Council of the Royal 
Zoological Society of Ireland, beg to offer on behalf of this Society 
our sincere congratulations to your Excellency on your assumption 
of office as the representative in this country of her Most Gracious 
Majesty the Queen. It is our desire ¢o thankfully acknowledge the 
tangible recognition of our Society’s claims for support which has 
been shown by your Excellency’s ready acceptance of our invitation 
to extend to it your patronage by becoming one of its Members. 
Our position as an Institution, designed fifty-five years ago and ever 
since administered for the instruction and recreation of the public, has 
always seemed to justify our asking for some practical recognition 
from your Excellency’s predecessors, and to them and to several 
members of the Royal Family we are indebted for assistance which 
has enabled us to afford to the public much greater advantages 
than would otherwise have been possible, ‘The well-established 
reputation of the Countess of Aberdeen for a willingness to afford 
sympathetic recognition to every effort designed to elevate and 
instruct. the masses, leads us to believe that this Society will be 
among those in Dublin which will be acknowledged by her 
Excellency as having pursued a useful career. Such attractions as our 
