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hibitions, to follow the example of Your Excellency and offer 
prizes to certain classes of Exhibitors. This may however be 
another delicate question to raise. 
Very interesting collections of plants from the Pamplemous- 
ses Garden and the gardens of Mr. Constant Vanskirlbisk 
and Kittery were noticed at this Exhibition. — Of new plants 
introduced into the colony, and remarkable for the beauty of 
its foliage, the Farfugium grande, a native of China where it was 
discovered by Fortune, brought from London by the care of 
the Secretary was exhibited by Mr. Levieux. 
A few fine vegetables were also remarked. But attention 
was principally attracted to the photographs and products of 
art. The Vanilla exhibited by Mr. Levieux, carried off the 
gold medal of the Society, and we readily join in the praise 
bestowed upon them by the juries for the beauty and perfect 
preservation of the Pods. They will certainly bear compa- 
rison in London or Paris with the Vanilla of Brazils. 
The Society has received from Mr. Payet through the Ho- 
norable Ch. Wiehe, the seeds of a plant known at Bourbon 
under the name of Tan, the flowers of which are sought by the 
bees who yield the odorous honey known under the name of 
Green Honey. This plant which is the Weinmannxa macros- 
tachya grows in the forests of Mauritius. Mr. Fleurot struck 
with the odour exhaled by the seeds, made an analysis of 
some, and found them to contain the same odoriferous prin- 
ciple which exists in the Tonquin Bean, in our Faham and in 
a few other plants, the substance known amongst chemists 
as “ Cau marine.” 
To Dr. Ayres, Lejuge and Regnaud was entrusted the task 
of reporting on the Memoir presented by Dr. Henry Sene- 
que, the title of which is a few remarks on the malady called 
Tambave. 
This word Tambave which appears to belong to the M ala- 
gassy language was probably introduced from that Island 
(Madagascar). If we believe Dr. Chapotin, the appellation 
did not then (in 1810 ) as it does now, apply to certain affec- 
tions to which children are subject. The Malagassy females, 
“ says he, are subject to a peculiar alteration of their milk, in 
which that fluid assumes a yellowish tinge, and no longer 
