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6tait doue T honorable H, Pitot^ le President de la 

 Societe et s'exprime eu ces termes : 

 Gentlemen^ 



The circumstances in which we are this day 

 assembled sadly remind us, that, since we last met, 

 the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences has, through 

 the unexpected death of the Honorable Henry Pitot, 

 lost its much esteemed President, and Mauritius one 

 of her most devoted and distinguishsd sons. 



At the last meeting of the Society, held the 22nd 

 of February, Mr Pitot presided over us with his usual 

 tact and ability, and was apparently in excellent 

 health ; an 1, indeed, he was actively engaged in 

 attending meetings and committees, and in discharging 

 his multifarious public duties, until, on the 22nd of 

 March, as he was preparing to go to a meeting of the 

 Council of Education, he was suddenly taken so ill 

 that, unfortunately, it soon became but too apparent 

 that there was little hope of recovery. Four days 

 after, he breathed his last, and on the 28th his remains 

 were followed to the grave by a large concourse of 

 friends and acquaintances from all classes of the com- 

 munity, eager to pay a tribute of respect to his memory. 

 He died in the fifty-eighth year of his age. 



Gentlemen, all who knew the Honorable Henry 

 Pitot, and especially those who have watched the 

 course of events in this island during the last twenty 

 years, cannot but have been impressed with a sense 

 of his high intelligence and sound judgment, his 



