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Several joined in f fighting a ship, which nt the re* 

 rommendaiioM of the Society, was sent to IJMtavia. a.i- 

 dressed to Mr Dinrd, Siiiierintendent of Agriculture uf 

 the Dutch Government at Java. 



Tliis nhip, called the Belinnce, ar'ived nt Batavia 

 jtist as the crop was nearly over, neverthe'egs, and in 

 S; ite of the distance from the fw plantatien'' whirli 

 remaine I iinciit, the I'rd-^rs of ihe Gnvernor-Geneial at 

 J »va, til inks to Mr Diard's influence, were carried out, 

 as it were hy enchantment, and the Jielitwre was ena- 

 bled to fin.i, on her anival at Tagal, nioie than a mil* 

 lion of cuttings reaily for shipment. 



That service, rendered to th^' (olony, merited for Mr 

 Diard, the gold medal placed by S'r G' orge And> rson 

 at the disposal of the Society to be offered to thf per* 

 ton who, in th^ course of the y^ar.1851, should render 

 the most important f.ervice to ihe coh»ny. , „ 



Mr Di«rd was in our islan<l, a (-hort lime ago. and 

 we sincerely regret that he has not been able to returu 

 from his trip to Bourbon in time to be present at our 

 meeting of this day to receive anew the expression of 

 our setitimenis of deep gratitude. 



On annth^-r hand, we have the sorrow to record the 

 death of a distingiiishe 1 member cut off i'l the prime 

 of life. Doctor A. Dnpny, whose medical ku' w edge, 

 derived at the cidleges and in the Univeisity of I. on- 

 dim, could only be equally by his modesty, unassum- 

 ing manner and elevation of mind. 



We have now a delicate taf-k to perform, vizt : to 

 speak of the first pnrt of the new Trnn^HCtions of the 

 Society, published a short lime after His Excelle' cy'g 

 acceptance of the title of Patron. That part, a'* ynii 

 are aware, was entirely devoted to the descriptions ami 

 uses of the medicinal plants of 1VIaurifi"S. Although 

 incomplete and hurridly get up, it has nevertheless at- 

 tr-icfed the attention of scientifie persons and several 

 papers in London, Geneva and Munich. It has been 

 mentioned in the Gnrdener^a Chronicle of the 20ih 

 Mar'h, edited hy Dr Lindley. in the Pharmaceutif.al 

 Journal of the 1st May, and in the Bibliothiqxte Unu 

 cerselle dc Ge-nkve fur the mouth of July, 



