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ciety to draw on the Treasure lot its annual allocation of £-200 

 for ihe year 1847. 



3. A Letter from the Secretary r,f the Agricultural Committee 

 informing the Society that the 5 Medals to be presented to the 

 successful competitor', for the sugar Exhibition of 1846 have 

 been engraved and are ready for delivery. 



i. A Letter from Mr. W. Bojer, Curator of the Colonial Mu- 

 seum, accompanying the copy of a letter to the Hon. Colonial 

 Secretary, stating the damage done to the collections of the 

 Museum by the hurricane which oecared on the 7th and 8ih 

 of March. Mr. Bojer expressed his wishes that, on account of 

 the rainy season now prevailing, immediate repairs be made 

 to the roof of the building containing the collections of the 

 Society. 



5. The Report of a Committee appointed to examine the 

 model of a Piston of the invention of Mr. Carrie. The Com- 

 mittee recommended it to the Society and the public at 

 large: — lo. As being the realization of the probable perfection 

 of the Piston as used in the steam engines. — 2o. As an invention 

 of e»sy manufacture and without any apparent inconvenience. 



6 A Letter from Mr. A. Labutte accompanying some me- 

 teorological observations being the completion of those which 

 be had already communicated to the Society, and comprising 

 altogether a space of 36 years in which the Barometer fell 63 

 times under 28 inches (french measure), 6 times in December, 

 9 in January; 15 in February, 15 in March and 8 in April. !t 

 is therefore in the two months of February and March that these 

 frightful disturbances in the atmosphere, are the more fre- 

 quent, in Mauritius. 



7. A Letter from Mr. Strickland addressed from Oxford to the 

 Secretary, asking for information on the osseous remains of the 

 remains of the species of Didus that inhabited Mauritius a long 

 time ago, and announcing that he intends to publish in a few 

 months a History of the Dodo and the other extinct birds allied 

 U> it. The enquiries of the Society on that subject have not as 



