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It was rosulvcd llial th;iiik> hi- ri-tiinu'd to tlu'ir Aiulilors for 

 their repDrt. 



The following Kkphkt i;i'on tiik affaiks of tiik Socikty was 

 then laid bi'forc thv inretiu^ on the part of tlie Couiuil. 



Tlie C'oiiiu il of the llorlii ultiiral Society betz; to submit to the 

 FeUows, the foUowiDj; report in contiiuiatioii of that of hist year; 

 and they trust that the Society will ai^ree witli them in finding in 

 it sati^tat tory indications of progressive iuijjroveuient in the slate 

 of tlie Society's atVairs, and in tlie pul)hc utihty of the institution. 



FoUowing the phm adopted hist year for the arran^;cincnt of 

 tlie I{eport, the Council li.ive iirst to refer to the mission of 

 their Collector IMr. Ilartweg, whom the last statement left in the 

 pro\ ince of (iuatemala. 'I'lie foilowinn; extracts from his cor- 

 respondence will explain the further progress of this zealous 

 naturalist. 



Guatemala, February, 2lst, 1810. — *' Since writing my last I 

 have made several excursions, and 1 am so far satislied with the 

 results, in a few days I shall ])ack up what I have collected 

 since my arrival here. Of Pines I do as yet not see any prospect 

 of new ones • the species met with are P. oocarpa, Teocote and 

 occidentalis, the two former without any cones at present j 

 of the latter I collected some very fine ones. Of one of the 

 Garryas (laurifolia) I succeeded in obtaining a tolerable quantity 

 of seeds, as also of Cheirostemon platanifolium. Of Epiphytes 

 I have a few boxes, they being common even in the valley of 

 Guatemala, and obtained without much loss of time." 



Guatemala, March, ^ZTith, 1840. — " During the last month my 

 collections have made but very little progress, notwithstanding 

 the many excursions I have made to the surrounding mountains, 

 and, from the experience 1 bought, just now I have very little 

 chance of finding plants that will stand the open air in England. 

 The political state of the country is also such as to render my 

 expeditions very precarious. A few days after my departure 

 from Quezaltenango, that State was conquered by the troops 

 from here, and now on the 18th instant the troops from San 

 Salvador entered and took this town, but were driven out again on 

 the following morning. They will be back agjiin before long." 



Immediately after the receipt of this letter, the Council took into 

 consideration the propriety of maintaining Mr. Hartweg in Gua- 

 temala, where it appeared that the quantity of plants suited to 

 the purposes of the Society was so much less than had been an- 

 ticipated. It was eventually determined to withdraw him from 

 this part of America, and to despatch him to the fertile uplands 

 of Guayaquil. The views of the Council were embodied in the 

 following letter. 



