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The Committee observe that the General Meetings of the Socie- 

 ty as ordered in para. 23 of the Regulations, have not for the past 

 few years been regularly held, but their revival seems desirable as 

 affording to the Members generally an opportunity of becoming 

 acquainted with the practical working of the Society and its pro- 

 gress. 



The following gentlemen are unanimously elected as Members of 

 the Society. G. L. Nursinga Row, Esq., R. S. J. Prendergast, Esq., 

 Captain A. H. Hope, T. Franck, Esq., E. R. G. Fane, Esq., Major 

 Black, M. A., and Capt. J. G. Palmer, 15th Regiment N. I. 

 Business not being concluded at o'clock a. m., 

 The Meeting was adjourned to 20th instant at the usual hour. 



Proceedings of a Meeting of the Committee held on Friday, 

 6th May, 1859. 



Present. 



Colonel Reid, c. b., A. J. Scott, Esq., m. d., 



H. F. C. Cleghorn, Esq., m. d., R. Hunter, Esq., 



Colonel McCally, H. B. Montgomery, Esq., m. d., 



Read the following, which has been referred to the Society by 

 order of Government. 



Extract from the Minutes of Consultation, under date the 10th 

 February, 1859. 



Read the following letter from Surgeon Edward Balfotjr, 

 Officer in charge of the Government Central Museum ; to T. Py- 

 CB.OFT, Esq., Chief Secretary to Government Fort Saint George, 

 dated 8th February 1859, No. 41. 



Sin, — The Members of Government are, I believe, aware that 

 Mr. R. Fortune is now for a fourth time in China, to gather for 

 the United States, supplies of plants suitable for introduction into 

 the Union. 



2. I observe it stated in the Proceedings of the Anniversarv 

 General Meeting of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of 



