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on Entomology, Crustacese, the MoUuscese, tlie Araclinids, 

 Ichtyology, and otlier branches connected with Zoology gene- 

 rally, and even with Geology, or formation of Coasts and 

 Metereology. 



" But studiously careful in writing on any subject which he 

 undertook, he only gave us fragments of his labours, reserving 

 his numerous notes and the specimens he had collected for 

 further study and examination in Paris, where he intended to 

 publish the Zoology of Mauritius in as complete a state as 

 possible. 



" But death interrupted him in his career, and his labours, 

 notes, &c. have fallen into other — and I would add, — un- 

 faithful hands. 



" Mr. Lienard has also made us acquainted with many of 

 the Eishes of Mauritius as well as its Crustacese and Conch- 

 yology and descriptions have been published in the Society's 

 Transactions, and reproduced by Guerin Menneville in his 

 Magazin de Zoologie and in other works on the Natural Scien- 

 ces in both in Paris and in London. 



" Other members, such as physicians and our Eeunion cor- 

 respondents, have also supplied us with notes and other com- 

 munications of local interest. 



" Among other recommendations from several learned So- 

 cieties with which we are in correspondence, was one from the 

 Medico Botanical Society of London urging the necessity of 

 obtaining information respecting the Mauritius plants used in 

 the treatment of diseases both by Physicians and by the 

 Creoles, 



" A work on the medical plants of Mauritius was accordingly 

 prepared by one of your members, begun under the auspices 

 and with the assistance, of Governor Higginson, and com- 

 pleted under Sir W. Stevenson's administration. 



" If our memory does not fail us, the above gives an idea of 

 all that has been done of a serious nature, and then reversing 

 Mr. Bruce's sentence, we might say that the papers read 

 before the Society at that time were rather the expression of 

 a serious scientific industry than of an amiable scientific senti- 

 ment. Although after all, it is perhaps, becoming that science 



