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4. Letters from Mr. Krumphollz and Mr. N. Bouton regretting 

 that illness prevented their being present at this meeting. 



2. Letter from Mr. Ellis, London, acknowledging with tbasks 

 the receipt of plants sent by Mr. Bojer to the British Museum. 



3. Letter from Mr. Charles Ttlfair, Paris, proposing as Cor- 

 responding Member of this Society, Mr. Mercier Senetorin, a 

 gentleman distinguished as anornithologist, andencloing a letter 

 from Mr. Mercier Gen6toux offeringhis services to the Socieiy and 

 expressing his desire to be connected with it either for the pur- 

 pose of Correspondence or t« exchange specimens interesting to 

 either parly. The Society, on the lecommendation of Mr. Tel- 

 fair elected Mr. G6netoux a Corresponding Member. 



4. Letter from Mr. Heniy Burguit curator of the Museum 

 of Natural History at Bordeaux presenting to the Society some 

 Memoirs published by him on different branches of Natural 

 History and an account of the Museum under bis care, and 

 offering his thanks for the honor done to him by the Society in 

 appointing him a Corresponding Member. 



The President presented a paper by Mr. Bousquet, on the 

 Law of Storms, with his observations on he weather, aid on the 

 fluctuations of the Barometrical column which took place here 

 on the 5th and 6th of last December as compared with the ob- 

 servations of the Captains of Anais, Anne Mary and Comet dur- 

 ing the hurricane which they experienced at some distance 

 from this Island at the end of November and beginning of De- 

 cember. At Mr. Bojer's suggestion the Society agreed to recom- 

 mend to the favor of Government this work of Mr. Bousquet 

 and the particular line of his study and observations as leading 

 to results at once interesting in a scientific point of view, and 

 most important to the interests of humanity. 



The President also placed before the Meeting a proposal of Mr. 

 F. Dick that a Committee be appointed to examine and report 

 to the Soc:eiy as to the mode of cane culliva ion adopted by 

 Mr. Gallet at » La Viiginie » in the district of Flacq. Mr. Dick 

 stated that the gr. wth of the canes cf Mr. Gallet hod not only 



