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valence of Hepatitis, so far from being correct, are positively refuted as far as 

 regards high temperature at this station : (as Hepatitis much affects the natives, 

 and in a very small proportion the European women or children.) The author 

 says, we must look to other sources for its frequency at Bangalore. The real cause 

 of the prevalence of Hepatitis, at particular stations, can only be ascertained by the 

 most careful comparison of correct data. 



3. — Societe' d'Histoire Naturelle of the Mauritius. 

 January Wth, 1831. 



Mr. C. Telfair, President, presented on the part of the Governor, Sir C. Colville, 

 the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, and several other valuable works ; in 

 return for which the Society presented a copy of the Meteorological Observations 

 made in 1827-28-29-30, by their colleague Mr. L. Geoffroy. 



Upon a communication from the Reverend J. Adamson, Secretary of the South 

 African Institution, it was mutually agreed, that a Member of one Society should 

 be admitted to an honorary seat in the other, during his residence at the place ; and 

 further, that copies of their proceedings should be interchanged. 



Mr. R. Lyall presented a collection of 598 plants, made at Madagascar, with a 

 catalogue. 



Mr. Barry addressed the Society in English, on the occasion of his admission : 

 he expatiated on the effects of terrestrial refraction, particularly on the pheno- 

 menon of nauscopie : MM. Geoffroy, Lyall, and Faraguet were nominated a 

 commission to examine his memoir. 



Mr. L. Bouton presented a specimen of eagle-wood (Aloexylon, Agallochum de 

 Loureiro). 



Mr. Faraguet described several curious objects met with on his voyage of disco- 

 very in the Astrolabe. 



Mr. Desjardins, Secretary, read a description of some Sumatra fish ; as well as of 

 two species prevalent in the Mauritius. Mr. Leguitte presented a preserved 

 specimen of a puppy, with six feet, which lived for several days. 



Seeds of a tetile plant of Diego were forwarded by Mr. Hockyns, from which 

 excellent cordage was made by Captain Pole of the Maidstone. 



Corresponding Members proposed. Mr. Prie'e, directeur du jar din botanique de 

 Pondichtrry, and the Baron du Ferussac of Paris. 



8th February. Mr. A. Lyall continued his verbal observations on the manu- 

 facture of sugar. He objected to the employment of the coral lime for the purifi- 

 cation of the syrup, and recommended the substitution of the Madagascar stone- 

 lirne. 



Mr. Telfair explained, that the stone-lime of Bristol had been used without much 

 difference of effect. 



Mr. L. Bouton read a note upon the posthumous work of Mr. Thouin, entitled 

 " Cours de culture et de naturalization des vegetaux." 



The Secretary read a paper by Mr. G. Longmore, on the subject of the replacing 

 of one of the extreme points of the base laid dawn by Lacaille, in 1753, on the plain 

 of Fort Blanc. 



Messrs. Delisse and Lyall were appointed a commission to examine some mine- 

 rals, received from Mr. Cameron of Madagascar. 



Mr. J. Desjardins read a note on the zoological part of the voyage of the Uranie, 

 pointing out a few errors in the account of the vertebral animals of the Mauritius. 



The President presented Mr. Chaix's work on artesian wells, &c. 



