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"It is peculiarly gratifying to myself to have had the duty of offering our thanks 

 on this occasion, upon account of my having before seen this museum in that 

 glorious region, to which it owes its existence, and having been indebted to Mr. 

 Royle both for his civility in permitting me to inspect it, and for the pleasure 

 and surprize of finding in the Botanic Garden, at Seharanpur, the English daisy, 

 looking up from the plain of India to the lofty snows of the Himalaya." 



Resolved, upon the motion of the President, seconded by Dr. Carey, that the 

 Society, in tendering their thanks to Mr. Royle for the inspection of the extensive 

 and interesting collections submitted by him to the Meeting, and the remarks illus- 

 trative of them, feel it incumbent to express their regret that any acknowledgments 

 they can offer are an inadequate return for the gratification and instruction they 

 have received. 



And further that the Committee of Papers be requested to consider whether a 

 letter may not be addressed to the Honorable the Court of Directors, introducing 

 to their notice the labours of Mr. Royle ; and if they deem it expedient, to prepare 

 a letter accordingly for Mr. Royle to carry with him. 



2. — Medical and Physical Society. 

 3rd March, 1832. 



The following gentlemen, formerly proposed, were elected Members of the 

 Society : — Messrs. Shirreffand Holmes, Assistant Surgeons, Bengal Service; Mr. 

 Oxley, Assistant Surgeon, Sincapore ; Mr. Richards, Surgeon, 8th Madras Light 

 Cavalry, and Dr. J. N. Casanova. J. C. Boswell, Esq. Assistant Surgeon, at Pe- 

 nang, was proposed as a Member of the Society, by Mr. Hutchinson and Mr. 

 Twining. 



The following communications were then laid before the Society : 



1 . — A letter from Colonel Tod, presenting to the Medical Society, through Dr. 

 Craigie, various objects of Natural History, from Van Diemen's Land. These 

 consisted of some Lignites, two specimens of Ornythorynchus Paradoxus, and a 

 variety of Birds. The thanks of the Society were voted to Colonel Tod, for his 

 valuable present ; and a Committee was requested to examine the several articles 

 carefully, for the purpose of selecting such specimens as cannot be preserved in this 

 country, and having them transmitted to England, while in a good state of preser- 

 vation. 



2. — Additional communications from Dr. Mylne, of Bombay, relative to Dra- 

 cunculus, in confirmation of the opinions already advanced by him on that subject. 



3 A case of Disease of the Heart, drawn up by Mr. Spurgeon, and forwarded 



by Dr. Thomas, through the Medical Board. 



4. — An Essay on Hospital Gangrene, by J. L. Geddes, Esq. of the Madras Medi- 

 cal service. 



5. — Two cases, in each of which both the common Carotid Arteries were tied j 

 by Mr. Preston of Cuddalore. 



6. — An account of the Medical Topography of the Nielgherry Hills, and the in- 

 fluence of that climate on healthy and on impaired European constitutions, by Dr. 

 Baikie. 



7. — Remarks on Dracunculus, by Dr. Smytten, of Bombay. 



8. — A Medical Report relative to the station of Gowhattie, in Assam ; and an 

 account of the diseases which have recently prevailed in that district, by G. Lamb, 

 Esq. of Dacca> presented by the Medical Board. 



