182 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. 
to the London Zoological Society’s Gardens, and when there the other 
day he found it had recognized him, though after the lapse of five weeks, 
and he put in a good word for it to the excellent superintendent (Mr. 
Bartlett) of the gardens to give it, now and then, the rather expensive 
dainty, in London, of a young fowl. 
Mr. J. J. Lalor believed that the system of giving a good proportion 
of bone in the food to carnivorous animals was due to the eminent natu- 
ralist, Sir Dominic Corrigan, and he thought that if Dr. Wright had 
presented his leopard to the Dublin Gardens it would have been in the 
most perfect health and condition. 
Mr. Montgomery said that he must himself lay claim to being the 
originator of the system adopted in the Dublin Gardens, and now in 
other places, of giving bones to carnivorous animals as part of their 
food. 
Professor EH. Perceval Wright stated that he thought Mr. Lalor made 
a mistake in supposing that the plan referred to by him of feeding car- 
nivorous and other animals in the Phoenix Park Gardens originated with 
the President of that Society. He had no connexion with the Dublin 
Gardens; but he recollected Mr. Montgomery’s speaking to him on the 
subject, and he further remembered discussing the subject with his 
friend Dr. Sclater, Secretary to the London Zoological Society, in which 
discussion Mr. Montgomory’s name was referred to as the originator of 
the plan. 
The Chairman wished to record that he had obtained specimens of 
the gannet’s eggs taken on the Bull-rock, some miles to the north of the 
Skillig, the latter being the only place on which the gannet has been 
hitherto supposed to breed. 
Dr. D. Moore then submitted the following 
REPORT ON THE LATE INTERNATIONAL BoTanicaL CONGRESS, HELD AT 
Parts. By Davin Moors, Pu. D., F. L.8., &e. 
On a former occasion I stated to this Society that I delivered the 
letter to the Secretary of the Botanical Congress at Paris which the 
President and Council of the Natural History Society of Dublin accre- 
dited me with, as the representative of the Society on that occasion. 
At that time I could not give definite information on the principal topics 
which were discussed during the sittings of the congress; but now I 
am possessed of their official report, and beg, with your permission, to 
read a brief epitome of them on this present occasion. 
The meeting, as you will perceive from the long list of names of 
those who attended, was a very large one, and many highly distinguished 
men among them. Indeed, it was supposed that on no previous occasion 
had so many European botanists met together. M. A. Decandolle, the 
celebrated veteran botanist of Geneva was president; and, along with 
M. Dumortier, of Paris, M. Gelesnoff, Councillor of State, St. Peters- 
