TRANSACTIONS 



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MAURITIUS. 



Part II. AUGUST, 1848. Vol. I. 



Report of the Committee of Fine Arts. 



Dimidium facti, qui caepit, habet. 

 Hor. 



The Committee of Fine Arts have the pleasure to submit 

 to the Council of the Society of Arts and Sciences their 

 Report upon the first Exhibition of Pictures and works of 

 Art, held under their direction in the month of October 

 last. 



The Committee were appointed in the month of May 

 1847, and immediately issued a notice to the public through 

 the newspapers, and to the several artists and amateurs in 

 the Colony by means of a circular, announcing that an 

 Exhibition of Paintings and works of Art would be held to- 

 wards the close of the year. The public seemed to be 

 pleased with the idea, and several artists responded to the 

 call; but a notion appears to have prevailed pretty ge- 



