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The President stated, that the remittance of 1000 Rs. for the purchase of Eng- 
lish fruit trees during the past year, had been replaced iu the hands of the Treasurer 
by the sale of the trees, besides the affording a number of trees for the Society ’s 
garden. 
The President stated, that a remittance hud been made to England in December 
1827, for a supply of garden seeds for distribution during this present season, but 
that they had not yet arrived. 
The President read a short paper recommending the raising of garden and other 
seeds, for transplanting, in shallow earthen porous pans filled with sand, which 
pans are to he kept moist by being set on a stand half immersed in water. He 
stated, that the plan bad been very successful with himself, and proposed it for the 
adoption of others Three such pans, with different kinds of seeds in a state of 
beautiful vegetation, were exhibited to the meeting. 
The meeting then adjourned to the 2d Wednesday of January ; when the matters- 
contained in Mr. Robison’s motion will be taken into consideration, as well as 
the other subjects which were deferred. 
3. Medical Society. 
A meeting of this Society was held in the apartments of the Asiatic Society, on 
the 6th December, which was very numerously attended. H. H. Wilson, Esq. in 
the Chair. 
Dr. Haliday was elected a member of the Society, and several candidates were 
proposed for admission. 
A letter was read from Dr Traill of Liverpool,President of the Royal Institution 
of that place, acknowledging the receipt of the Society’s three first vols. of Transac- 
tions. 
The following papers, received since the last meeting, were then laid before the 
Society. f 
1st. Observations on the quantity and quality of food necessary for man, by 
Mr. R. M. Martin. 
2d. On the use of the Chloride of Lime in India as a disinfectant by Dr. R. Voss. 
Several books were presented for the Library by individual members. Six copies 
of a work on the diseases of Europeans io the country, drawn up by the Medical 
Board of Madras, were transmitted by that Board, and a printed oration read 
before the Medico- Botanical Society of London, was presented by that body. 
The papers of the evening were then read and discussed, viz Dr. Voss on the 
Chloride of Lime, and Dr. Wise on the Pathology of the Blood-vessels. In the 
course of the discussion on the first of these, it was suggested by a member, that 
the internal exhibition of Chloride of Lime or of Soda might prove a valuable ad- 
dition to the remedial means of the profession. A case was adduced of severe dy- 
sentery, in which the gentleman. in question had used the Chloride of Soda with 
success, on the previous failure of every other remedy . The dose was 36 minims 
every six hours. Two doses produced a decided effect, and the pationt ultimately 
recovered. 
Previously to the breaking up of the meeting, it was intimated from the chair, 
that agreeably to the laws of the Society, the election of the Vice-Presidents, Se- 
cretary, Assistant Secretary, and Members of the Committee of Papers would take 
place at the next ensuing meeting, being the first of 1829. 
Ill SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, NOTICES, MEMORANDA, 
DESIDERATA, Ac. 
1. Sanpu and Irawadi Rivers. 
Our readers will remember the discussions which have appeared from time to 
time in the Government Gazette on the subject of the identity of the Sanpu river 
of Thibet with the Brahmaputra of Bengal- A very good abstract of the question 
was published in the Oriental Quarterly Magazine, which appears to us oil the spot 
to leave little further to be wished for, except the actually tracing either ot the 
two rivers to such point as sha 1 set the question entirely at rest. I he principal 
antagonist the advocates of the above opinion have had to contend with is 
M. Klaproth, the Editor of the Journal Asiatique, who, on the authority of 
some Chinese works, insists that the Sanpu of lhibet is the Irawadi. lo 
