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 SfiANCE DU MARDI 14 JUIN 1870. 



sous LA PRESIDENCE DE M. CH. BRUCE. 



Sont presents ; Le Dr. Le Juge. MM. N. Desjardins, 

 Cli. DescroizilleSj Ev. Dupont, A. Regaard, V. de Robil- 

 lard, F. Vandermeerscli, L. Bouton, Secretaire. 



Apres la lecture du proces-verbal de la derniere reu- 

 nion, les communications suivantes sont faites par le 

 Secretaire : 



1. La lecture d'une lettre a I'adresse de Sir Henry 

 Barkly, est ainsi con9ue : 



Eoyal Society of Arts and ScieBceSj 

 Port Louis, nth May 1870. 



To His Excellency Sir Henet Baee:lt, K.C.B. 



Dear Sir, 



The Royal Society has requested me to convey to Your 

 Excellency their grateful thanks for the kind interest expressed 

 in your note of the 10th instant which I communicated at the 

 last meeting. 



"We will receive with the greatest pleasure Tour promised 

 paper on the Ferns of Mauritius and its dependencies. It 

 will not be the least of the tokens by which you will be re- 

 membered, omong us. 



I am also desired in accordance with a resolution passed at 

 the meeting of the 12th instant, to request that]Tour Excel- 

 lency will bo pleased to accept the diploma of Honorary 

 Member which is granted by the Society under article] 6 of 

 the Regulations, which runs thus : 



" Honorary Members must be chosen among persons resid- 

 ''' ing in the colony or elsewhere, who have distinguished 

 " themselves by their love of Science, the acquirements they 

 " have attained in it, or the encouragenaents which they have 

 " offered to it. " 



I remain, dear Sir, 



Tours respectfully, 



L. Bouton, — Secretary. 



