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M. L. Bouton presente, de la part du President de la 

 SocietCj I'hon. Ed. Newton, tine photographie representant 

 des individns male et femelle du Solitaire, sqnelette monte 

 avec des ossements recueillis a Rodrigues par TOfficier 

 de Police Jenuer. 



II presente aussi, de la part da-Dr. W. Rogersj le speci- 

 men d'un Crnstace du genre Callinassa, trouve dans de la 

 vase, pres de la Cure-mole delarade de Port-Louis. Cette 

 espece parait etre inedite, du moins il n^en est point fait 

 mention dans Fhistoire des Crustaces de Milne Edwards. 



M. L. Bouton donne communication d^une lettre qu^il 

 a Te9ue de Plion. E-awson, Gouverneur des lies Barbades, 

 en reponse a une lettre qu'il lui avait ecrite pour lui de- 

 mander des boutures de cannes provenant des colonies 

 occidentales : 



" Government House, Barbados, 

 " 15th July 1870, 

 " My dear Mr, Bouton, , 



" Tour friendly letter wbicli I receive as I was on the point 

 of leaving the Bahamas, has remained answered much longer 

 than I intended, or expected, I" sent yoa a card of acknow- 

 ledgment by Dr. Meller, who wrote to me on the same subject. 

 I did not anticipate that 1 should be unable to send you canes 

 for this year, and even this year I never anticipated the trouble 

 one way or another, which I have had in sending off the two 

 cases of plants, which I am despatching next weet. I am writing 

 about them to Dr. Meller, under whose cover I enclose this. 



" I thank you and my other friends in Mauritius for their 

 kind recollection of me, and you for your good wishes. I am 

 not negleetiug science, being hard at work at meteorology 

 and natural history, shells, fossils. I have collected some 

 very interesting specimens among which is a fine Encrioiites 

 cajmt Medusai. There is much to be done here, but nobody 

 but myself to do it. I have proposed to Dr. Meller to do any 

 thing I can to help him, I make the same offer to you. I 

 have written to Sir Henry Barkly about the ferns of Mauri- 

 tius. I want him to make a correct and complete description 

 of them, as Dr. Pappe and I did to the Cape species. 

 Adieu, with wishes, &c., 



" Eawson W. Eawson,— C.B." 



