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The manufacturer, by giving desirable artificial qualities to native products, 
which they did not before possess, added, doubtless, to the number of useful pro- 
ducts of which the income of the society is composed ; and the merchant, by 
securing the other producei'S from interruption, enabled all, more efficiently, to 
devote themselves to their peculiar labours ; and although the manipulation of the 
manufacturer, and the intervention of the merchant, thus increase the wealth of 
the society, we must grant, that without the periodical exhibition, and continual 
co-operation of the reproductive and incremental energy, there could have been 
no periodical return or increase whatever, on which to superadd the wealth 
which springs from the simple manipulation of the manufacturer, or to support the 
classes engaged in commerce. 
IV . — Proceedings of Societies. 
1. — Medical and Physical Society. 
At the Meeting of the Society held on the 7th May, Dr. Brydon, of the Bombay 
Medical Service, and Messrs. Boswell, Ginders, and Blackwood, of the Bengal 
Establishment, were elected Members. The following communications received 
since last Meeting, were then presented to the Society — first, second, and third 
parts of Mr. Hutchinson’s Essay on Fever ; a Catalogue of one hundred and twenty 
specimens of Burmese Materia Medica from the vegetable kingdom, and a sample 
of amylaceous fecula, prepared from the root of the Jatropa Manhiota, cultivated at 
Moulmien, by Mr. W. S. Anderson, Staff Surgeon. 
A letter from Dr. R. Tytler, with a drawing representing a diseased condition of 
barley, during the growth of the grain ; a case in which the Ergot was administered 
with much benefit, by Dr. Warrand, presented by Dr. Mouat; a case of successful 
operation for strangulated Hernia, by Mr. J. B. Preston, Cuddalore ; a successful 
case of ligature of the right common Carotid Artery, by ditto ; two copies of Mar- 
shall’s Popular Summary of Vaccination were presented by Dr. Jackson; Mr. 
Brett’s case of exostosis of the lower jaw, and notes of cases of Lithotomy on 
Natives, and Mr. Burnard’s paper on the same subject, were then read and discuss- 
ed by the Meeting. 
2. — Agricultural and Horticultural Society. 
At the Meeting of the Society, held in the Town Hall, on the 11th instant, 
Sir Edward Ryan, President, in the Chair ; 
The following Gentlemen were elected Members of the Society : Messrs. John 
Carr, John Brightman, John Swinhoe, and James Napier Lyall. 
On the motion of Mr. Robison, Mr. Carr was appointed Assistant General 
Secretary. 
Read a letter from Mr. H. Piddington, dated Nimtullah, 11th ultimo, present- 
ing a paper entitled “ Description of the Hydraulic Heart for Irrigation and 
Draining ,” and translated by him from the 25th No. of the Spanish Annals of 
Agriculture of the Havanuah, together with the No. which contains the plate 
referred to in the pappr. ' v 
Read a letter from Mr. Maingy, Commissioner at Moulmien, dated 4th March 
last, sending a sample of Tobacco, the produce of Virginia Seed sent to him by 
the Society, and enclosing a memorandum, by Dr. Anderson, descriptive of the 
method pursued by him in cultivating it. 
Read a letter from Mr. G. J. Gordon, dated 2d ultimo, presenting two bottles of 
Carracas Indigo, Seed, received from America, by Mr. Palmer, and believed to be a 
species different from, and more valuable than the Bengal plant. The Secretary 
informed the Meeting that those bottles of seed had already been handed to the 
Akra Committee for experiment. 
Read a second letter from Mr. Maingy, dated Moulmien, 7th ultimo, sending- 
two bags of uncleaned Terasserim Cotton, and another sample of Tobacco grown 
from the Society’s Seed i also one from Sir Robt. Colquhoun, dated 7th ultimo, 
presenting, in the name of Mr. Swinton, specimens of Arracan Rice, and enclos- 
