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proceedings of your Society, and was honored not only 

 with a Resident membership, but received the most 

 flattering compliment of being elected as one of your 

 Vice Presidents. The kindness and attention shewn 

 me not only by the officers and members of the Royal 

 Society but by the people of Mauritius generally, is 

 still fresh in my memory, and it is with pleasure I 

 look back to the many years, (some of the happiest of 

 my life) which I passed there. 



Many of your members are aware that I made 

 extensive collections of the zoology of the Island, par- 

 ticularly in Ichthyology. 



These collections were sent to the late Professor 

 Agassiz then in charge of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusset. As I had colored 

 drawings from life of all the Fish they were easily 

 determined. I have enclosed to your Secretary a des- 

 cription of the new Genera and species which I should 

 like to have published in your Report of the yearly 

 Transactions with the full list of Fish observed by me 

 and captured and now in Cambridge Museum. A 

 little later I will forward colored drawings, from my 

 original ones, to be placed in your Museum. 



I take this occasion to tender to you and the 

 members of the Society my profound sympathy in the 

 loss you have sustained by the death of Mr. Louis 

 Bouton, a gentlemen for whom I entertained the 

 highest respect, and to whom I was indebted for many 

 act of kindness and attention. 



