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honor to include among our members. I allude to the 

 Revd. Father Jouan, Professor of Natural Sciences in the 

 Diocesan College of Port Louis ; he has nevertheless ren- 

 dered great service to our Society and laboured as hard 

 as the most zealous of us. 



It is to him that we are indebted for the discovery at 

 Grand Port of a fossil tree of which he has given a long 

 and scientific description. The paper was printed through 

 the care of our Society in one of the Mauritius newspa- 

 pers, in order that it might sooner be brought to notice 

 pending the publication of our Transactions. 



Mr P. Lemiere shewed specimens of a plant, a native 

 of Mexico and which has flowered at Grand River. It 

 belongs to the family of the Leguminous and is a specie 

 of the genus Broioma-Coicinea. 



Dr A. Giinther, a corresponding member, forwarded 

 a description of two gigantic Lizards of which the remains 

 were found in the Mare aux Songes by one of the natura- 

 lists attached to the Expedition for the observation of the 

 Transit of Venus. 



We may say a word respecting this Mare aux Songps 

 which has acquired a certain celebrity since the day when 

 the late Mr George Clark discovered therein the bones of 

 the Dronte ; new excavations made shortly afterwards 

 brought to life the bones of other extinct animals, such as 

 Turtles, Parrots, &c. 



On several occasions your Society has been urged to 



