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ANNEXE M. 



(Voir Seance cln 28 Decembro, page ')7.) 



To lUs E./ccellcncij Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur P. 

 Phayre, G.O.M.G., K.G.S.I., O.B., Governor and 

 and Commander in Chief in and over the, Island of 

 Mauritius and its Dependencies, c)r., Sj'C, Sj'c. 



May it please j^oui* Escellency. 



We tlie undersigned, OHice Bearers of the Royal 

 Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius, on the oc- 

 casion of Your Excellency's approaching departure, 

 from this Colony, beg, on behalf and in the name of 

 the Members of the Society, to express to Your Ex- 

 cellency their warm thanks for the interest Your 

 Excellency has always taken in the proceedings of the 

 Society of which you were the Patron, and in the pro- 

 gress of Art and Science in Mauritius ; — for the 

 manner in which Your Excellency has presided over 

 the annual meetings of the Society, and over the 

 Public Exhibitions held, from ti\ne to time in Port 

 Louis, at the call of the Society ; and also for the 

 kindness and courtesy which Your Excellency has in- 

 valuably shown to the Office Bearers and to the Mem- 

 bers of the Society. 



We have the honor to offer to Your Excellfency 

 the grateful acknowledgement of the Society for the 

 initiative taken by Your Excellency, in your letter of 



