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the disfigurement of the hand-printed labels which, until 
they were injured by the weather, proved so satisfactory. 
Dog Shows—As the Society’s past experience has not 
encouraged the Council to resume the practice of holding 
Dog Shows in the Gardens, it was resolved to allow the 
Challenge Cups in the custody of the Society to be offered 
at the Royal Dublin Society’s Show, as had also been 
done in the year 1888. 
The President—Owing to the completion of his five 
years’ term of service, Dr. Haughton vacates the 
Presidential chair. If ever there was a case when it 
seemed desirable to depart from the rules which govern 
the constitution of a Society, this is surely one; but we 
must obey the emphatic law, chap. iv., sec. 2, which 
provides that “ the same person shall not be President for 
more than five successive years.” 
Of Dr. Haughton’s long service to the Society—for 
twenty-one years as Honorary Secretary, and during the 
last five years as President—it is, we feel certain, quite 
unnecessary to speak, because the fact is so well and 
widely known that letters often reach us from very 
distant parts of the world which bear testimony to the 
identification in their writers’ minds of his name with 
the Society and its highest interests. 
We anticipate that the Society at large will warmly 
approve of our having entered Dr. Haughton’s name 
as a member of Council, by which we hope to continue 
to secure the benefit of his active participation in our 
deliberations. 
The considerations as to the constitution of the 
Gardens, which were briefly stated in last year’s report, 
have prevented us from accepting offers from promoters 
of switchback railways, parachute descents from 
balloons, and similar entertainments, which could not 
be accepted without seriously risking the status of the 
Society, which manages to meet its liabilities without 
having recourse to such precarious sources of income. 
