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THE Gardens of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland have become famous among zoological gardens for their breed of lions. While here and there among the zoological gardens of the world a lion cub is born, none save those of Dublin can boast of a period of lion-cub production of nearly thirty years' duration, or of the extraordinary success of the birth of 131 cubs. This being so, we are indebted to Mr. V. Ball for a history of the subject, which has been published in a recent part of the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. The subject is one of interest in several ways, and the following short abstract of the details will call our readers' attention to it.
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"Observations on Lion-Breeding in the Gardens of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland," by V. Ball, M.A., F.R.S., Director of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin, and Hon. Sec. of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. xxviii. Part 24, August 1886.
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On Lion-Breeding 1 . Nature 34, 601 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034601a0
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