96 Asiatic Society. [Fzs. 
Sur trois espéces de lézard du genre scinque. 
Sur un tandree de Madagascar. 
Sur trois espéces d’echassiers (gralle) de do. 
Sur une coucou pris 4 1’Ile de France. 
Sur quelques poissons de la cote N. O. de Sumatra 1831. 
Description d’un oiseau (scolopax totanus glottis), 1829, &c. &c. 
Literary. 
Mr. Telfair also transmitted by the same opportunity a variety of manu- 
script essays by Mr. Baker and others, connected with the literature of 
Madagascar, besides the Missionary publications already noticed. 
1. Translation of the fable of the alligator and hedge-hog. 
2. Ditto of a song concerning the dead. 
3. On the ordeal of the Tangéna. 
4. Sur les maladies epidemiques de Madagascar. 
Portions of some of these papers were read. 
Resolved, that the last paper be made overto the Medical Society, and that 
the best thanks of the Society be given to the President and Secretary of 
the Mauritius Natural History Society. 
Thanks were also voted for the other contributions of the evening. 
After the business of the evening was concluded, Mr. W. MacnacuTEen 
begged to remind the meeting that this might be the last occasion in which 
they would enjoy the society of the gentleman who now occupied the chair, 
in this country—nay perhaps for ever! He had seen his friend in the morn- 
ing overwhelmed with the fatigues of preparation for embarkation on the 
morrow, and little thought it possible for him to attend to other engage. 
ments ; but his ardent zeal for the cause of literature and science had urged 
him to devote the very last moment of his residence in this land to the In- 
stitution with which he had been connected so long. For the affection 
and interest thus manifested to the last, the gratitude of himself and 
of his brother members was most due,—and for the modesty which had 
marked his services to the Society, and which alone had prevented his rising 
long since to the highest dignity it could bestow. From the time of his 
quitting college, Mr. Swinton had been distinguished as an Orientalist, and 
his unimpeachable conduct had marked him as one of the brightest orna- 
ments of the Civil Service. Mr. Swinton, he knew, would wish him to spare 
such eulogium in his presence, but it would be unjust in him and in the 
Society to allow their associate to quit them without testifying their anxious 
solicitude for his safe and happy return to his native land. 
Mr. Swinton returned thanks for this expression of feeling on the part of 
his associates, which he attributed rather to their partiality than to his merits. 
He had always felt the warmest interest in the Society, and had endeavour- 
ed to contribute to its success, whenever an opportunity occurred. He could 
but now for the last time tender his sincerest wish for its lasting fame and 
prosperity, and once more returning his best thanks, he bade them farewell. 
