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Money. 



"In alluding to the Treasurer's accounts, which show a balance 

 in his hand of £16. Os. 6d., your Committee beg to inform you that 

 in future the Society will have to bear the expense of printing 

 its Journal, as Government can no longer undertake the work 

 which it has hitherto so liberally done. 



Meteorology and Statistics. 



" Your Committee observe with regret that the Meteorological 

 and Statistical Committees have failed to furnish any reports for 

 the past year, the Secretary of these bodies having been left un- 

 aided by the Members ; and having been himself prevented from 

 completing any of his labours by causes over which he had no 

 control, has deemed silence the better course to adopt. 



" He has, however, handed to your Committee abstracts of the 

 Meteorological Diaries kept at Batticotta and Trincomalee, during 

 the years 1847 and 1848, which are now laid on the table, together 

 with a Register of Temperature, &c, kept at Puttalam by A. O. 

 Brodie, Esq., and these your Committee advise should be printed 

 amongst the Society's Proceedings. 



Dr. Gardner ; Sir J. E. Tennent. 



66 Before concluding, your Committee would revert with feelings 

 of the deepest regret to the sudden death of one of the Members 

 of this Society, one whose name will always be intimately 

 connected with the Scientific Literature of the Island, whose early 

 premature death has left immatured a vast accumulation of 

 botanical gleanings, the fruit of several years of unremitting toil. 



"Although the unvaried zeal with which Dr. Gardner pursued 

 his botanical researches, and his absence from the neighbourhood 

 of the Society left him no time or opportunity to appear personally 

 amongst us, still his constant expressions of sympathy and support 

 render evident the interest he took in the efforts of the Society 

 for the promotion of the public good, and the few pamphlets he 

 presented to our Library some short time since were accompanied 

 with a promise that in future a copy of all his publications should 

 be kept for its use. 



