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savings, to provide for the making of these rewards more substantial 

 and permanent. 



The Government having thrown open to public competition com- 

 missions in the Artillery and Royal Engineers, Haughton was not 

 deterred by his many other duties from organising, in conjunction 

 with his friend Mr. Galbraith, classes for such students as were pre- 

 paring for these services. The success of their teaching was so 

 remarkable that the proportion of Irish candidates who obtained 

 commissions was higher at that time than it has ever been since, and 

 this success continued until the conditions of the competition were 

 altered to the detriment of University candidates. In connexion with 

 these classes he published with Mr. Galbraith a series of manuals 

 which became text-books for the general use of the College. 



No account of the part which Dr. Haughton has played as a pro- 

 minent figure in Irish life would be complete without reference to 

 his long and intimate connexion with the Royal Zoological Society 

 of Ireland. In 1860 he became a member of its Council, and in 1864 

 he was elected its Honorary Secretary. For twenty-one years he 

 filled this office, and he only resigned it to assume the duties of 

 President, Avhich he discharged for five additional years. During a 

 large part of the time in which he acted as Secretary the Society 

 was in a very struggling condition, and it passed through more 

 than one financial crisis which threatened to swamp it ; indeed it 

 is very probable that had there been a less courageous and able 

 man at the helm the Society would have been submerged altogether. 

 But Haughton never lost heart, and the Society owes its present 

 secure position in a great measure to the plucky fight which he then 

 fought. He enjoyed extremely telling how when the bank on one 

 occasion threatened to foreclose the Society's account, he had met 

 the difficulty by offering to deposit a ferocious Bengal tiger as 

 security for the debt. 



He had a passionate fondness for animals. He was never seen 

 in Dublin without his dog; and on his death bed, when lying speech- 

 less, he endeavoured with the little power which still remained in 

 his left arm to acknowledge the advances of his little Scotch terrier. 



Some of the happiest hours of his life were spent in the Zoo- 

 logical Gardens. A distinctive feature of the social life in Dublin 

 consists in the weekly " Zoo breakfasts." On Saturday mornings 

 the members of Council meet in the Gardens and take breakfast 

 together before proceeding to business. It was at these meetings 

 that Haughton appeared at his very best. Surrounded by friends of 

 long standing, all of whom had the greatest admiration and affec- 

 tion for him, he was wont to give fall scope to his bright and 

 joyous nature. 



Amono- Haughton's many talents perhaps the greatest was his 



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