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January 13, 1832. — The Committee appointed for attending 

 the show of Vegetables and Competition, reported that no more 

 thati one specimen had been sent fulfilling the conditions pro- 

 posed. It was agreed, that such be in the mean time post- 

 poned. — The following works were presented a3 donations to 

 the Institution, vh. ; Illustrations of Ornithology, by Sir Win. 

 Jardine, Hart. ; and J. P. Selby, Esq. G Numbers, from Sir 

 Win. Jardine; and the Edinburgh Geographical Journal, 3 

 Numbers, from H. H. Check, Esq. There were also presented, 

 the Skin of a spotted Ilyinna, procured by Dr. Smith;- and a 

 collection of dried Plants, as a donation from Mr. Bojer of 

 Mauritius. 



Jan. 23. — At a meeting of Council Mr. Verrcaux presented 

 as a donation to the Museum, three Cape Moles and a Guinea 

 Fowl, mounted. — It was agreed to take a lease of the house in 

 the Looyers'-plein, called Machtenburg, as a Depository for the 

 Museum, &c. 



Jan. 27. — There were presented, as a donation to the Insti- 

 tution, a package of preserved Ferns, &c. from Mr. Bojer of 

 the College at Port Louis. 



LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. 



The folloivinrj singular Case was sent to us by Mr. Reid, 

 Clerk to the Attorney General for this Colony. 



On the 22d of November last, a female Slave of J. A. Mool- 

 man, a farmer, named Lea, residing at Kan River, in the 

 district of Swellendam, having been sent out to herd her 

 master's goats, which was her usual occupation, returned in 

 the evening, when she informed her mother that she had, wliilsc 

 in the fields that day, been delivered of a still-born female child, 

 which she had buried. On being questioned by her mistress 

 why she had not brought it to the house, she answered, " she 

 did not.know that it was necessary to bring a dead child home, 

 and that she could not have brought it without having been 

 observed by the lads who were out with the horses." 



