1830.] 
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387 
A letter was read from the Secretary to the Physical Committee of the Asiatic 
Society, accompanying a specimen of the Morung poison, and requesting that 
its properties should be investigated. 
Mr. Hutchinson’s paper, on alvine fluxes of the natives of tiindoostan, was 
then read and discussed. 
Saturday , 6th November. 
Mr. Allingham was elected a Member of the Society, and Mr. C. C. Egerton, 
Assistant Secretary* 
The following communications, received since the last meeting, were laid before 
the Society : — Notes of a case of lithotomy, with remarks, by Mr. Lindsay, 
Assistant Surgeon, Kamaoun. Two cases of abscess of the liver, communicated 
A letter from the Members of the Medical Society, belonging to the Bombay 
Presidency, expressing their warm approbation of the proceedings of the Society 
on the occasion of the death of the late Dr. Adam. 
Mr. Burnard’s account of amputation of the hip joint, and remarks on lithoto- 
my : Mr. Thomson’s case of wounded abdomen ; Mr. Hutchinson s communica- 
tion on laceration of the small intestine, from external violence ; Rajah Kalee vis- 
sen’s letter on the medical purposes to which docata is applied by the Natives ot 
Bengal; and Mr. Lindsay’s notes on a case of lithotomy, were then read and 
discussed by the meeting. 
3. Agricultural and Horticultural Society. 
Wednesday, the 8 th September . 
President, Sir Edward Ryan, in the Chair. 
Mr. Boyd, of Kishnagliur, and Mr. Bagshaw, of Calcutta, were elected Mem- 
t)6rs 
Letters were read from the Secretaries of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the 
Horticultural Society of London, of the Geological Society of London, and ot the 
Royal Asiatic Society, acknowledging receipt of the first volume ot the Pransac- 
tl °Aietter was read from H. H. Wilson, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society, 
referring to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, a letter on the rearing o 
silkworms, and a specimen of silk which had been transmitted to that Society, 
by “A Friend to Industry ,” at Kamptee, near Nagpore ; and also one from a 
Ladv to the Secretary of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, giving her 
real name, and stating herself to be the "Friend to Industry,' -and soliciting a /' 
pecuniary loan, and a donation of silkworms. A communication it was deter ,) 
mined, should be sent to the writer, stating, that some silkworms should be sent, 
hut expressing the inability of the Society to make any pecuniary advances. 
A letter was read from R. S. Graeme, Esq. Resident at Nagpore, recommend- 
ing Nagpore as a fit place for the rearing of fruit trees aud exotics, arid offering 
to bestow attention on any which the Society might be willing to send there for 
cultivation. Also requesting a supply of American cotton am obacco seeds. 
The Secretary was requested to replv to Mr. Graeme, and to express the anxiety of 
the Society to comply with his wishes. 
The Secretary submitted a list of applications for garden seeds, which had been 
complied with, including packages, sent by theSocK-tv, on a bilge scale, to 
Dinapore, Poosah, Saliarunpore, Nipal, Almorah, Simla h, Svlhet, and Moulmien, 
ainountinff to ninety-three packages, and nearly exhausting the stock m hand. A 
fetter was read from Mr. Calder, offering to the Society, at prime cost, a quantity 
of garden and flower seeds, also of marrow-fat peas, grapes, and oats, j ust arrived 
from Aberdeen, and supplied by Mr. Gibbon formerly an indigo planter at T,r- 
hoot-Resolved, that the seeds be taken on the terms proposed, and that they be 
made over to he Garden Committee, with instructions to i dispose iof the flower 
"mU, grapes, and oats, and to retain the garden seeds for farther distribution to 
Members of the Society and native malis . „ 
The following donation of books was received from Mr. Robison ; Deewan 
rr,, ; 
°Culendar, by Bernard Ma’cMahon ; Speechly On the hue, and the Pme-apple ; 
U Ateucr^wi™ rfad 'S' Rajah Kalee Kissen Bahadur, submitting a treatise by 
him Oh the cultivation of Tobacco. 
A letter was read fron Mr. Hill, of Madras, transmitting a small quantity of the 
seeds of the Umbrella tree, which had lately been introduced theie. 
