APRIL — SEPT. 1858.] 



Proceedings. 



161 



The Secretary submits 10 copies of Dr. Cleghorn's Memorandum 

 upon the Pauchontee, or Indian Gutta Percha Tree. 



Ordered, that any member of the Committee desiring a copy be 

 furnished with one. Two copies to be placed for record in the office 

 of the Society. Also Drs. Hooker's and Thompson's Flora Indica. 

 Also the reports of the Commissioners of Patents for 1855 (Section 

 Agriculture), all the foregoing have been received from Goverment. 



Resolved, that consequent on the return to Europe of R. O. Camp- 

 bell, Esq., and the retirement from the Society of H. Forbes, Esq. 

 C. S., and Surgeon James Sanderson, the following Gentlemen be 

 elected members of the General Committee. 



J. Vans Agnew, Esq. 



Colonel Colbeck. 



Andrew J. Scott, Esq., m. d. 



Read letter from Messrs. Pharoah and Co. tendering for sale a 

 sample of Indian Rubber tubing. 



Resolved, that Messrs. Pharoah and Co. be informed that the So- 

 ciety does not require the tubing not having any Engine to which 

 to attach it, and considering that it would not be found generally 

 useful in the Garden. 



The monthly accounts having been examined, and as it appears 

 to the Committee that it is not now required to have more than 2 

 pairs of bullocks, it was unanimously resolved, that one pair of 

 bullocks be sent to the next Periodical sale of Messrs. Waller and 

 Co. to be disposed of outright. 



The Secretary submits to the Committee the Ground plan of the 

 new plot of ground adjoining the Cathedral, and directs attention 

 to the condition of the wells in that ground. 



There are at present three wells in the space marked on the plan 

 as Nos. 1, 2 and 3 respectively, the first two of these are brackish 

 and in indifferent repair. 



The Committee decide that a trial well should be sunk in the two 

 positions now indicated on the plan by the * * Should good 

 water be obtained in either of those places, tenders are to be invit- 

 ed for the sinking of one well 12 feet in diameter and 30 feet deep, 

 and that subsequently the wells No. 1 and 2 be filled in and the % 

 ground levelled over them. 

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