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que c'est la meme cause qui a produit le meme fait, 

 pour rexplication duquel je ne puis recourir qu'a des 

 suppositiona qu'il n'est pas possible de justifier. 



J'ai fait faire plusieurs photographies de ce pois- 

 son que j'ai expediees aux plus grands Museums de 

 I'Europe, afin de savoir s'ils le possedent et sous quel 

 nom il est decrit. 



V. ROBILLAED. 



ANNEXE B. 



(Voir seance du 28 Octobre 1884, page 9) . 



Report 



of Mr J. A. Despeissis, Commissioner for Mauritius 



at the Calcutta International Exhibition 



Port Louis, 6th June 1884. 



The Honorable The Colonial Secretary. 

 Sir, 

 Agreeably to the instructions contained in your 

 letter, bearing date the 3rd November 1883, I have 

 the honor to submit for His Excellency the Governor's 

 information, a brief sketch of the results of the Cal- 

 cutta International Exhibition, so far as the Colony is 

 concerned j together with some notes, describing the 

 manner in which some of the industries which are 

 common to our Island and India, are carried on in 

 that peninsula. 



