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forming a consolidation requiring great power to overcome it. 

 It could also be applied, in the manner of asphalte, for form- 

 ing gutters or waler-courses, as to become a solid and even mass. 

 The covering of houses, and public establishments, canals, 

 sugar-batteries, and in fact, all such things as are exposed to 

 damage might, by the employment of this cement, be consi- 

 derably improved. 



The composition consists of a mixture containing the follow- 

 ing proportions, the fragments of the common basalt of the 

 island pulverized, of rosin, and pounded glass, forming a pasle 

 by the action of lire. 



Basalt pulverized 80 lbs. 



Rosin 20 d°. 



Pounded glass 2 lbs. per cent. 



Mr. Bojer presented to the Society pieces of wood, and frag- 

 ments of brick coated with this composition, and by this means 

 the members satisfied themselves at once of its great power of 

 adhesion, and the immense resistance the coated portions of- 

 fered to the attempts made to separate them. 





(Tuesday, 23 rd May 1848.,/ 



His Excellency the Governor in answer to a Letter addressed 

 to him by the Secretary of the Society, having consented to 

 preside in the usual place of the Society's meetings, on the pre- 

 sent occasion, in order to bestow on the successful candidates 

 the Medals which they have obtained at the Exhibition of Sugar 

 in 1846, the Secretary in consequence assembled the members 

 ©f the Society at an extraordinary meeting which took place on 

 Tuesday the 25rd of May at 3 o'clock, at which were present : 



The Hon. G. F. Dick, Messrs. W. Bojer, Li6nard L. Bouton, 

 J. Morris, E. Vigoureux, A. Desenne, H. Barlow, Hon. R. W. 

 Rawson, F. Sevene, Rev. L. Banks, C. C. Brownrigg, Lieut. 



