n. Proceedings of the Society. 



Mr. Bousquet slates lo have takt n place at some distance from 

 Mauritius, and tbi eaten ere long to affect the Island itself. 



The Secretary cotDmunicated to the Meeting some of the re- 

 pli'-s made by ihe Plan'ers to the questions addressed to them 

 by the Agricultural Commiitee, relaiivelo the disease at pre- 

 sent in the Canes. Th se were Mr. Ch. Rouillard, planter at 

 Riviere du Rempart, and Mr. Ward Telfair, manager of the 

 Beauchamp Esiate, at Savane. 



He also announced liie anival of the Medals he had applied 

 to Messis. H. Cutler, Son and Chambers for on 30'^ December 

 ef last year. 



Mr. Eugene Lecl6zio presented to the Society several copies 

 of a pamphlet published in the Colony under ihe liile of La 

 Serigene u Mawice, and atiribuiel to Mr. b s' roixilles. 



Mr. Bury, an ihe part of Mr. Ri ketis, presentei the head of 

 a fox killed in England by the latter genileman. 



The Secretary informed the Meeting that he had made seve- 

 ral applications to Calruita and Bombay for eggs of the silk 

 worm, which produces the yellow cocoon, and of those which 

 live on the Ricinus and Zizyphus Ju'juba. He had requested, in 

 accordance with ihe instiuctions given to him by Mr. Desrroi- 

 zilles, that the eggs be plareJ in a Bamboe tube, and sur- 

 rounded with saltpeter, in orler to keep thim cool, anl that 

 they be enveloped with a third packing of saw dust. At the 

 same time the Secretary had applied for various seeds of use- 

 ful vegetables which do not exist at Mauritius. As the Teree of 

 Chittagong,a new kind of Cccsatpinia which bears a pod approacti. 

 ing those of the Sumach used for tanning purposes, the Tobacco 

 plant of Persia, the Cabul Capsicum and the Tenasserim Yams. 



^Thursday, 8'^ October iSkS.J 

 The Hon. George F. Dick, President, in the Chair. 

 Present:'— Ueisrs. W. Bojer, Vice-President, L. Bouton, $«• 



