xviH. Proceedings of the Society. 



teorologiques, in which he crUioifes Mr. Piddington^s work, as 

 well as the rotes appended to the French transUi- 

 tion of it, while at the same time be proposes a new 

 theory for explaining the cause and the movements of storms. 

 The Honorable the President named a Committee, composed of 

 Mfssrs. W. Bojer, Brownrigg and V. Singery to exiimine this 

 Memoir; and saw no objection fcr having it inserted in the 

 Transactions of the Society should the Report of the Committee 

 prove favorable. 



5° A Letter from Mr. James Morris, acknowledging the 

 receipt of his diploma, as Honorary Member of the Society, 

 which had been conferred upon him shortly before his depar- 

 ture for London -. ♦! will always recollect the meetings of the 

 » Society with real pleasure, writes Mr. Morris, and will en- 

 » deavour to made amends for the little it has hiierto been in 

 » my power to do for it, by the zeal to serve it which a wider 

 j> sphere of action will enable me to display. » 



Mr. Bojer presented on the part of the Rev. Abb6 Colyar the 

 parts forming the continuation of Champollion's work on Nubia 

 and Abyssinia. 



Mr. Bojer also placed on the table some splendid specimens 

 of his Dombeya Viburnijlora, Indigenous to the Comoro 

 Islands, and which being at present in full blossom at the Bota- 

 nical Gardens and forms a most beautiful tree. Mr. Bojer hopes 

 to obtain a sutlicient number of seeds this year to enable him to 

 distribute them to several persons, and thus propagate it in 

 this island. This tree merits, from its ornamental nature, the 

 special attention of Amateur Gardeners. 



At the recommendation of the Honorable the President it was 

 determined that the case of plants sent by the Secretaryof the 

 Agricultural Society of India, should be sent to the Garden of 

 Pamplemousses, to be filled with the plants which that Society 

 is desirous of possessing, and then returned to India by an 

 early oppoitunily. 



