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while he resided in Ceylon from 1670 to 1677; and into that in which it was, fifty years 
after his death, communicated by Aucustus GunTeEr, an apothecary at Copenhagen to 
Lixnzus, who on receiving Hermay’s papers from him, discovered the information 
which ultimately led that great naturalist to the classification of all vegetable produc- 
tions according to the sexual system.* 
Having explained to the Society the different points to which the researches of the 
Committee have been directed during the last twelve months, I shall take the liberty to 
call their attention to some events, which must facilitate the future proceedings of the 
Society, and extend the influence of science and literature over the Hindi: and 
Muhammedan population of Asia. 
The English and the French governments, equally anxious to promote scientific 
enquiries in India, have recently aided each other in the attainment of this great 
object. France, by the appointment of M. Jacquemont, an eminent naturalist, to pro- 
ceed to India and to remain there for seven years upon a public salary, for the 
purpose of investigating the natural history of that country. England, by affording 
M. JacguEemonr in every part of British India the most ready and the most efficient 
assistance. Both nations, by completely divesting themselves of the national jealousy 
which has so long prevailed between them, have set a bright example to all other 
nations of the cordial and unreserved manner in which all countries ought to co-operate 
according to the means which they respectively possess, in promoting those researches 
which are calculated to extend the limits of scientific and literary knowledge. 
The Society have lately acquired the active and zealous co-operation in their literary 
researches of two very able Christian missionaries in India, the one a Catholic, the 
other a Protestant; the first the Abbé Duszors, well known in France and England, 
by the very interesting and very accurate account which he has published of the people 
of the southern peninsula of India; the second, the Rev. Mr. Gurzvarr, a German 
gentleman, who is attached to one of the missions in the eastern peninsula of Asia, and 
who has for many years devoted his attention to the history and to the languages 
of the different nations who inhabit that peninsula. 
The importance of obtaining the zealous co-operation, in our literary researches, of the 
missionaries, as well Catholic as Protestant, who are established in different parts of 
Asia, must be felt by all who consider the extent of the knowledge which has been 
* Thelate Lord Livrrroot, on the suggestion of Sir ALEXANDER JounsroN, established a royal botanical garden 
in Ceylon in 1811, for the purpose of investigating and improving all the vegetable productions of the island, and in- 
troducing into different parts of it from foreign countries, all such trees, plants, shrubs, and vegetables, as might be of 
use to the inhabitants either as articles of food, oras articles of manufacture and trade. In order to give the natives 
a taste for the study of Botany, Sir ALEXANDER proposed to the late Mr. Kerr, when he was appointed head of 
the botanical garden in Ceylon, to prepare for the use of the natives such a work in the Tamil and Cingalese 
languages as might enable them to understand the nature of the Linnean system, and to arrange all the vegetable 
productions of the island according to that system. Mr. Kerr died before he had prepared this work, but Mr. 
Moon, his successor, to whom Sir ALEXANDER had communicated his ideas upon the subject, some years 
afterwards published such a work in English and Cingalese. (a) 
(a) A Catalogue of the Indigenous and Exotic Plants growing in Ceylin, &c., by ALEXANDER Moon; 4to. 
Colombo, 1824, 
