\\v. Proceerfiiifjs of the Society. 



The Secretary communicated to the Society a letter from 

 Mr. Nuiiia Geffroy, acknowledging receipt of Ihe notice of 

 his admission into the Society. 



The Secretary also communicated a letter from Mr. Bor- 

 cbard, a member of this Society, resident at Bordeaux, (im- 

 posing Dr. Henri Burguet, Curator of the Museum at Bor- 

 deaux, as a Corresponding Member. 



The President announced that a Meeting of the Council of 

 the Society would take place ou Wednesday, the 15th, to re- 

 ceive the Agricultural Committee's Report of the two Exhi- 

 bilions of last year. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Corsane Cuning- 

 hame, ou the subject of the Fossil Bones of Birds, now 

 extinct, but which formerly existed in the Is'ands of 

 Mauritius, Bourbon, and Rodrigues. This communication 

 was accompanied by a letter from W. C. Strickland, Esq., 

 M.A., Oxford, enclosing Extracts from a Treatise published 

 by him " on the evidence of the former existence in the Is- 

 " lands near Mauritius of Strathrous Birds distinct from the 

 " Dodo," and also " Extracts from the voyage of F. Leguat, 

 " to the East Indies in 1001 ;" and expressing his anxious 

 wish that endeavours should be made to obtain remains of 

 these Birds. An enquiry and search made at Rodrigues by 

 Capt. Kelly, of H.M.S. Conway, at the request of Mr. Cu- 

 ninghame, having proved unsuccessful, Mr. Strickland points 

 out what he considers the best method of discovering the re- 

 mains and the places where the search will most probably be 

 successful. Lieut. Col. Lloyd having suggested the de- 

 serted fortifications of Grand Port, and the mounds of 

 .earth thrown up in the formation of the works there, as a 

 very likely place, Mr. Cuninghame lays these papers before 

 the Society, in hopes that some of the Members may take an 

 interest in the matter. The Society receive these communi- 

 cations with interest, and recommend the subject to the at- 

 tention of the Members. On the suggestion of the Secretary, 



