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The Hon. Mr. Justice Boyd, having completed twenty years' service 
on the Council, is nominated as an Honorary Vice-President. For the 
vacancies in the Council the names of Mr. C. Green (Inspector of Fisheries), 
Lt.-Col. Johnstone (Chief Commissioner of the Dublin Police), and Mr. A. 
Miller are suggested. 
The year 1915 — with its sad memories for many — will be notable for 
the death of two prominent and highly valued Members of Council. Mr. 
J. Nugent Lentaigne joined the Society in 1877, was elected on the Council 
in 1888, and became an Honorary Vice-President in 1912. He was one of 
the most regular of attendants at the meetings, and showed his love for 
the Gardens b}'- frequent gifts of rare birds and other specimens. Mr. R. 
Manliffe Barrington joined the Society in 1880 and the Council in 1907 ; 
combining as he did great eminence as a zoologist with sound business 
capacity, his service was highly valued. An all-round naturalist, with a 
special and unrivalled knowledge of the habits of birds and mammals, his 
sudden death is an irreparable loss to Irish science. A good account of 
his life and a list of his numerous original contributions to zoology and 
botany will be found in the Irish Naturalist for November, 191 5. 
With the cordial assent of the Council, the Superintendent, Dr. B. B. 
Ferrar, has accepted a temporary commission in the Royal Army Medical 
Corps. He is daily on duty in the Dublin barracks and military hospitals, 
but continues his residence in the Gardens, and gives all his spare time 
to supervising the work of the Society's staff. 
The presence in our collection during 1914 of examples of each of the 
four types of Anthropoid Ape was a noteworthy feature. This " record," 
was brought to an end as early as March by the death of the Orang-utan, 
" Sandy." In December the small female Chimpanzee, " Susan," died 
succumbing in a few days to an attack of pneumonia. However, the other, 
four Apes that were in the House a year ago are still alive and vigorous — 
the Hoolock Gibbon, the Chimpanzees, " George" and "Charlie " and the 
Gorilla " Empress," the last-named having now lived two years in the 
charge of the Superintendent and Keeper J. Supple. As " Empress " 
grows older, she gains rapidly in weight, and the slow deliberateness of her 
movements contrasts more and more strongly with the agility of her 
companion, " Charlie." A succession of swellings on " Empress's " neck 
have been diagnosed as due to actinomycosis — a fungus -caused condition 
often prevalent among stablemen and persons addicted to chewing straws. 
Visitors to the Ape House who watch the Gorilla's habits will not be 
surprised to know that she is afflicted with this complaint. 
The large out -door Monkey Cage has been renovated and eight Rhesus 
turned into it in the spring from the Monkey House have kept well through 
the year. Their indoor places have been occupied by three Sooty Manga - 
beys, part of Mr. Laidlaw's gift already mentioned. Of the rarer African 
Monkeys acquired in 1914, only one — the Moustache — survives, but we 
still have the American group represented by three species of Capuchin — 
the White -fronted, the Weeper, and the Tufted. Among the Lemuroids 
the death of the Galago is much regretted. 
All the older animals in the Lion House a year ago are still on view. 
