DISCOURS DE L'lION. E. NEWTON. 



Mr President and Memberes of tlie Eoyal Society 

 of Arts and Sciences. 



In rising to move the adoption of the two Eeports 

 (Secretary's and Treasurer's Reports) which have just 

 now been read, I feel sure you will all join with me in 

 thanking their authors. The Secretary, for the very 

 valuable and interesting information which he has given 

 to us, and the Treasurer, for the very satisfactory manner 

 in which he has managed the financial affairs of the Society 

 with the happy result of no arrears of subscription, a 

 condition in which I venture to say the Society never was 

 before. 



On the whole, the Society has reason to congratulate 

 itself on its scientific labors during the past year, and its 

 tkanks are specially due to our friend, Mr Bewsher, who 

 made such a successful exploration of th© island of 

 Johanna, collecting as he did, a vast number of specimens 

 both Zooloozical and Botanical, and sending them to 

 learned naturalists in England, who are most inte- 

 rested in the different branches of Natural History, 

 in order that they might be named and described. As 

 has been mentioned, he was good enough to forward 

 his collection of birds to me, not only enriching my own 

 collection considerably, but giving me the opportunity 

 of reading a paper on them to the Zoological Society in 



