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tance, and other West India Islands, it was once the 

 custom to feed pigs on the green fruit, but it was 

 found that if the animals consumed any very largo 

 quantity of the diet without sufficient proportion of 

 other kinds of food they suffered in health and were 

 actually killed by the intensity of the chemical action. 

 In Quito the use of the juice as a means of rendering 

 meat tender is very general. To sailors and others 

 whose dietary largely consists of hard " junk " this 

 fact is of great interest, salt meat being affected in 

 precisely the same manner as fresh meat. The papaw 

 fruit, when fully ripe, is about seven or eight inches 

 long, of a bright yellow colour, somewhat resembling 

 a citron or lemon, of the flavour of which it partakes 

 in a small degree ; an unpleasant taste of petroleum, 

 or, as described by some persons, of indiarubber or 

 turpentine, however pervades the fruit, — Colonies and 

 India. 



Le Secretaire depose plusieurs brochures et vo- 

 lumes re9us de differentes Societes par voie d'echange. 



A la suite d'une conversation generale sur la 

 fixation des jours de reunions mensuelles de la Societe, 

 sur le pro jet d'une galerie de peinture, sur I'acquisi- 

 tion de la magnifique collection de bois et des dernie- 

 res ceuvres de feu le docteur 0. Regnaud, sur la 

 reorganisation du Musee et sur I'esposition projetee 

 de la Reunion, la seance est levee. 



