Report OF Society's Meetings. 179 



Mr. Rod way laid over specimens of a great improve- 

 ment in dried bananas, a sample from Trinidad, and also 

 a box from Messrs Finney and Lambert, who were pre- 

 paring to carry out banana drying as a commercial 

 speculation. 



The thanks of the Society were presented to Mr. 

 Davis for the following works : — 



12 Vols. Surinam Almanacs. 



I Copy Petition from Demerary 1803 — (in Dutch) for 

 and against free trade with England. 



Mr. Quelch, Curator of the Museum, intimated that he 

 had lately received a living specimen of Epicrates 

 cenchris one of the most beautiful of snakes. It was a 

 species of boa and showed the most gorgeous prismatic 

 colours in sunlight. 



The meetinsf then terminated. 



