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Proceedings of Societies. 
[May, 
ing 1 Mr. S.’s communication to him ; one from Mr. W. C. Hurry, dated /thinst. 
to whom these specimens had heen submitted, giving his opinion on the same 
The Secretary was requested to communicate Mr. H.’s opinion to Mr. Swinton. 
Read a letter from Mr. J. C. Marshman, dated 20th ultimo, sending three 
hundred copies of the Bengalee Version of the first Volume of the Society s 
Transactions. The most grateful thanks of the Society were voted to Dr. Carey 
for the great labour he had bestowed on this translation, with no other assistance 
from the Society than a common native copyist. The Secretary was requested to 
send a proper number of copies to the Government here, as well as to the Court oi 
Directors, and also to distribute them among the Members of the Society. 
Read a letter from Sergeant Major Watson, dated Durbungah, 22d ultimo, 
submitting the Plan of an Improved Hungarian Machine, for drawing and raising 
water : also one from Colonel Coombs, dated Palaveram, 26th ultimo, regretting 
the want of an Agricultural Society at Madras, and requesting to be supplied with 
American Sea Island Cotton, Havannah Tobacco, Grass, and other Seeds. The 
Secretary was requested to reply to Colonel Coombs, and afford him such assistance 
as the Society’s present stock enabled him, consistently with local demands upon 
him. 
Read a letter from Mr. M. Larruleta, dated Atchipore, 27th ultimo, enclosing a 
letter to his address, from Mr. Ryan, dated Philadelphia, 8th November last, who 
promises to send Cotton Seeds and Plants commissioned by Mr. Larruleta for the 
Society, by the first vessel that should leave that place in the ensuing spring : also 
one from Mr. H. Turnbull, dated 28th ultimo, submitting samples of Tobacco 
grown by him from the Virginia and Maryland Tobacco Seed, presented to him by 
the Society : and two from Mr. W. Prinsep, dated 29th ultimo and 11th instant, 
reporting on two specimens of Poonali and Salsette Island Silk, presented by Sir 
Edward Ryan, in the name of the Lord Bishop, at the Meeting of the Agricultural 
Committee, on the 7th ultimo, and which the Secretary was requested to submit to 
Mr. Prinsep for his opinion thereon. The Secretary was requested to communicate 
the substance of Mr. Prinsep’s report to His Lordship. 
A letter was read from Mr. W. Smith, presenting two bottles of a superior 
kind of Bean, produced from a plant received by him from the Isle of France; 
and communicating several particulars as to the time of sowing, &c. One also 
from Mr. DeVerine, dated this day, submitting a statement and plan of work 
done at Akra, from the 17th November last to the end of last month, together 
■w ith an Abstract of Expenditure, and also samples of Virginia, Maryland, and 
Persian Tobacco, and of Sea Island and Bourbon Cotton, the growth of the 
Farm : and a paper by Mr. John Brightman, on a mode of cultivating Artichokes 
here, which he had found very successful. 
Sir Edward Ryan submitted a letter from Dr. Robert Tytler, to Sir Robert 
Colquhoun, dated Gorruckpore, 2d ultimo, enclosing two Drawings, by Ensign 
Kewney, of the 50th Regiment Native Infantry, of the diseases affecting Grain 
alluded to in the Doctor’s letters read at the last Meeting ; and communicating 
additional particulars. 
Dr. Strong presented about a maund and a half of Coffee, the produce of plants 
grown by him at Russapugla, and which had not been shaded. 
The Secretary having submitted a recommendation of the Agricultural Commit- 
tee, (at its last Meeting, on Thursday the 5th current,) that twenty beegahs of the 
Akra Farm should be set apart for the cultivation of Grasses, Turnips, &c., with 
a view r to the improvement of cattle, &c,, the expenses whereof should be defrayed 
out of the general Fund of the Society ; — it was. 
Resolved, that this Fund could not bear this expense ; and that as these could 
not be defrayed out of the Akra Fund, furnished by Government for the cultivation 
of Cotton, Tobacco, Silk, Sugar, and other exportable articles of Raw produce, 
the measure must be delayed till a future period. 
The Hydraulic Heart, communicated by Mr. Piddington, consists of a horizontal 
cylinder, part ot the circumference of which is cut out, and upon this part is feed 
a chest, and in the sides and covers of which, are valves for the admission and 
expulsion of the water. The interior of this apparatus is divided into two parts, by 
a partition fixed to the cover, and which at its lower edges, terminates in a moveable 
flap, turning on an axis in the centre of the cylinder. On the upper part of the chest 
is a head, terminating in a pipe, for carrying the water raised. This apparatus, as 
described m a plate, is fitted into a simple frame-work, to keep it upright, and is 
wrought by the oscillating motion of a lever, with chains and pullies, giving motion 
to the flap. I he moveable flap, reducing alternately the capacity of one side of the 
