removed to the cooler climate of Reduit and attended to by 
Mr. Horne., they had never recovered the effects of the voy- 
age, or more probably of the previous land journey from the 
Botanical Gardens at Cotacamund through hotter regions of 
Madras. They ought not however to dispair of success from 
the failure of one attempt and he had written again to the 
Madras Government to repeat the experiment, and had only 
yesterday from his friend, Sir William Denison that another 
case wonld shortly be sent with all the precautions that have 
been suggested. 
There was another matter in which the Society also de- 
served his acknowledgements and that was for the very suc- 
cessful Flower Show held under their auspices in the Gardens 
of Government House. He trusted that its success was suffi- 
cient to ensure its repetition and he would take the oppor- 
tunity of reminding them that in that case it w'as not too soon 
to give public notice to intending exhibitors ; his honorable 
friend opposite (Mr. Henri Pitot) smiled ; but it was not 
every one who was ready to enter the lists, like him, at a 
moment’s notice. He Avould not delay them by referring to 
other points touched on in the Report ; the original papers 
contributed, though fev r in number, appeared to have been of 
a highly practical character and there was one of them con- 
taining the notes of Mr. Dick and Mr. Fleurot on the \V hite 
Ant of which he should be glad to get a copy, as enquiries 
had not long since been addressed to hint as to the best means 
of checking the ravages of that destructive insect. lie had 
seen in an English paper, that the impregnation of timber 
and other substances with Linseed Oil, was recommended for 
this purpose, but there might be many cases in which com- 
mon salt or the pulp of aloe leaves might be more suitable 
or easily procured. 
He must congratulate the Secretary on having so nearly 
completed the task of packing up and sending to Kew r the 
specimens in the Herbarium. They would be returned arran- 
ged and correctly named after comparaison with those in the 
