xvi. Proceedings of the Siciety. 



Essays are to be engrossed in the Transactions of t lie Socie- 

 ty, and the Secretary was directed to communicate to Mr. 

 Bousquet the thanks of the Society. 



(Thvrsday, \Qth June 1847.^ 



Mr. Rojer, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Present: — Mr. Lienard, Vice-President, Mr. Bunion, 

 Secretary, and five ordinary Members. 



Mr. Edouard Geffroy aad Mr. V. Singery, were elected 

 Resident Members. 



The Secretary intimated to the Society the d^ath of one uf 

 its most distinguished Corresponding Members, Mens, le 

 Baron Bory de St. Vincent. 



The Abhe Colyar, Cure of Pamplemousses, presented to 

 the Society two volumes of Champollion's Description of the 

 Monuments of Egypt and Abyssinia. 



Mr. Lionard, Vice-President, presented a Painting of the 

 Vheiromys Madagascariensis, (Desm.) of which, until lately, 

 it had been found impossible to procure a live specimen. 

 The painting, by Mr. De la Hogue, was takeu from an in- 

 dividual which lived in captivity some time, and whose hahiis 

 Mr. Lienard had it thus in his power to study. 



The Secretary communicated to the Society a letter from 

 the Hon. The Colonial Secretary, accompanying an Extract 

 from a letter of Mr. Crawford, who is eagaged in the compi- 

 lation of a work on the Malay Language, addressed to Mr. 

 Hawes, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. 

 Crawford is desirous of obtaining information as to the intro- 

 duction into that of Madagascar, of many idioms and phrases 



