ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS tc SCIENCES. 
WEDNESDAY, 29th MAECH 1865. 
H. E. SIR HENRY BARKLY, K.C.B,, E.R.S., IN THE CHAIR. 
Present at tlie Meeting : — The Hon’ble Sir Gabriel Fropier ; 
the Hon’ble C. W. Wiehe, Vice-Presidents; A. Desenne, Trea- 
surer ; L. Bouton, Secretary ; F. Dick, Vice-President. 
The Hon’bles H. Leraiere and H. Pitot, Messrs. E. C. 
Bewsher, Ed. Bouton, W. Connor, L. Estourgies, E. Fleurot, 
L. Hugues, J. Kyshe, P. Lemiere, Ch. Magnv, A, Mont- 
gomery, V. Naz. 
The Secretary read the following Report : — 
An apology is due to Your Excellency for the delay in the 
annual meeting of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences. 
The Committee appointed by Your Excellency from the 
members of the Society, to carry out the wish of the Secretary 
of State that Mauritius should not be unrepresented at the 
Dublin Exhibition, had to enter at once upon the duty of 
collecting the various products of the Island with sufficient 
despatch to enable them to reach Dublin in time, as no goods 
and articles could be received after the 15th of April — the 
Exhibition opening on Tuesday, the 9th day of May. 
These articles, contained in 16 cases, were successively 
despatched in the steamers which left on the 24th January, 
7th and lStli February. They consist of the beautiful sugars 
of Labour donnais , La Gaiete, St.-Aubin, Benares and Schoen- 
fekl Estates — of vanilla grown by Messrs. J. Levieux and N. 
Brousse ; of cotton and tobacco, both in leaf, in carrots and 
cigars ; of tanned hides, specimens of textile fibres and medi- 
cinal plants ; specimens of rope-making and fancy rattan 
works by the young Indian Orphans of the Government 
Asylum at Ponder Mills, besides other articles of which the 
Committee intend to lay a more succinct account before Your 
Excellency. 
Your Excellency kindly acceded to the request ot the 
Secretary that avantage might be taken of the departure of 
