XXXVI. Proceedings of the Society. 



■» On the oliier band, the cultivation of this kind of cane has 

 been almost entirely abandoned of late years, for this 

 reason, alleged perhaps rather unfoundedly,that the return was 

 very little and the sugar but middling ; it was therefore interest- 

 ing to ascertain whether this assertion was well grounded, and 

 Mr. Langlois has victorious'y proved the contrary. 



I Your Secretary communicated a Letter which was addres- 

 sed to him by Mr. Duffau, a proprietor at Moka, and in which 

 Mr. DuCfau mentions his intention of undertaking the rearing,of 

 siik-worms. 



t> His daughters have already got a certain quantity of cocoons, 

 and would continue what they have begun, had they more precise 

 information on the mode of reeling the silk, and means cf 

 getting the necessary instruments. 



The Secretary recommended to the attention of the Society 

 this branch of industry in which the public seems to take ih', 

 liveliest interest at the present moment, and moved that a Special 

 Committee should be appointed for the purpose ot ascertaining 

 the state of silk-growing in Mauritius, and of considering the 

 iiicans best calculated to promote it as much as possible. 



T> Mr. Eugene Leclezio presented to the Society several Copies 

 of a Pamphlet published at Mauritius two years ago under the 

 title of n La Serigene a Maurice V, and ascribed lo Mr. Uescroisilles. 

 This little woik contains some very useful information. The 

 Society accordingly received it wi;h much pleasure. 



t Your Secretary has informed the Society of his applications 

 to his correspondents at Bombay and Calcutta, in order to pro- 

 core for this Island the eggs of siik-worms producing yellow 

 cocoons, and also eggs of those species which feed on the leaves 

 of the Ricimts communis and Zizyphus Jujuba; he entertains 

 the hope of receiving them. 



» The Society received aLetterfromtheHonorabletheColonial 

 Secretary, together with a note from Mr. Crawford, in answer to 

 the Report of the Committee appointed last year, to take into 



