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VI. — Proceedings of Societies. 
f. IIorticultubal Society. 
The Society made their annual distribution of prizes at the Town Hall on Wednes- 
day. January 14th, to the native gardeners who were able to produce the best show 
of vegetables. The number of competitors was less than usual, ami the meeting but 
thinly attended. The samples of vegetables were inferior to those of a former oc- 
casion, a circumstance attributable to the Society not having this year received 
their supply of seeds from England for distribution to the malecs. This at least 
proves that the Society’s exertions have been productive of benefit, and this truth, 
we hope, will not be lost sight of- A number of native gentlemen were present, a 
circumstance we record with pleasure. 
In the evening the Society met at the Asiatic Society’s appartments, for the pur- 
pose of receiving the Report of the Garden Committee, called for at the last meeting : 
The President in the chair. 
The Secretary read an abstract of the minutes of last meeting. 
The President read a paper, partly on the state of the funds of the Society, and 
partly on the state of the garden. Mr. Robison begged to be informed, whether 
the Society was to consider the paper now read, as the report which the Garden 
Committee had been requested to submit to this special Meeting ; or merely as an 
essay for which the Society was indebted to the president himself : because if it 
were a paper offered by the President individually, he (Mr. R.) would consider him- 
self precluded from making any remarks upon it, however much it was obnoxious 
to animadversion. Mr. Leycester said, that the paper was entirely from himself ; 
and Mr. Robison thereupon stated, that his object in making the motion at the 
previous meeting had not been obtained, and that this special extraordinary 
meeting had taken place in vain. He therefore moved that a Committee be ap- 
pointed, to take the present state of the Society into consideration, to report upon 
its fifl mces, and laws. 1 his was seconded by Mr. Calder and carried, when the 
following gentlemen were named as the members of the Committee— 
Mr Bruce, Capt Jenkins, and Mr. Hurry, Secretary . 
Mr Leycester laid on the table a List of Plants in the Society’s Garden, which ke 
designated * Horlus Aliporensis.” 
1'he paper read by Mr Leycester having included some letters, to his address* 
from Mr Mitchell, head gardener, which were considered improper, it was pro* 
posed, and agreed to, that the Committee now named should particularly investi- 
gate Mr. Mitche.l s conduct in regard to these letters. 
The Secret ry read a letter from Mr Moore resigning the Society ; and from 
Mr. Chester resign, ng his s.tuatmn as member of the Garden Committee, on the 
ground, that he had been chosen by the President, without the sanction of the 
society . 
Mr Robison proposed, that the meeting should come to a resolution of ascertain- 
ing, whether the Asiatic Society would receive the Agricultural and Horticultural 
Society as a branch ol itself, m the same manner as the Physical Committee of that 
Society is now constituted ; and this with the view • , ■ 
energy, and unanimity into its proceXg* The » "'^regularity, 
was agreed to be postponed , and the Committee W ''‘ S ’ 
pcinttOBfnH Prt tol-fi this mu-fr+n*. Ii. . . . . c 
requested to take this mutter ’into its consideration 0 and*™™ ^°' V a PP. 01 ? te<l > was 
Society, on the expediency and pratioability of the measure 1 ' 0 ’ ,S ° pmi ° n t0 the 
Dr. Strong submitted six coffee plants reared i-n 1 !' , . , . ^ , 
sun, with the view of showing, contrary to the row.; s ‘ x reared m the 
which had always been exposed to the’ sun’s lavs ? Ianl ? 
had finer roots than the others. re ^oth better wooded, and 
The meeting adjourned sine die. 
MI. Scientific Intelligence, &c. 
^ ■ Transverse Strength of certain Woods. 
*ri r -t° r y, embodying in a table 
age Agency Kfeinfir Til ,!!? , ’ performed on this subject at the Gun Carri- 
42 f ' ihe woods selected were Bengal Sundri,I\Iuranp• S 11 Gorak- 
pur Sal, Rangoon Teak, Java Teak, Pegu Teak? Bombay Teak? Mu^g Thn, 
