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Proceedings of Societies. 
Upon a scrutiny, by ballot, the following appeared to be the ordinary Member* 
chosen for the Committee. 
European . 
Mr. Hurry, 
Captain Jenkins, 
Mr. Abbott, 
Mr. Minchin, 
Mr. Kyd, 
Natives. 
Raja Buddixath Roy, 
Radamadub Bonerjee, 
Seebchunder Doss, 
Dwarkanath Tagore, 
COSSINOTH MULLICK. 
It was proposed by Mr. Robison, seconded by Mr. Calder, and agreed to, 
that Sir Robert CoLyuHOuN, Bart, and R. T. Plowdev, Esq. be added to the 
Committee. 
It was proposed by Mr. Alexander, seconded by Mr. Minchin, and agreed to, 
that Pursoonath Comar Tagore and Obeychurn Bonerjf.e, be likewise added 
to the Committee. 
The President proposed that the Committee, now elected, should consider the 
following, as the more immediate objects of their labours : 
1st. To examine and report upou the Funds of the Society ; 
2d. To examine the list of Members, and ascertain the arrears of subscription, 
and to report the names of such members as are in arrears, and who, upon appli- 
cation made, decline paying up their subscriptions; 
3d. To examine all the papers of the Society, and to report thereon ; to select 
any papers for reading at the Meeting of the Society, that have not hitherto been 
noticed, and to which the Committee think it desirable the attention of the Society 
should be called ; 
4th. That the Committee refer to the Prospectus and queries, drawn up and 
circulated by Dr. Carey when the Society was first established, and report how 
far the objects of the Society, as detailed in those papers, had been effected or lost 
sight of. 
Resolved, that these proposals of the President be considered as the subjects to 
which the Committee are, in the first instance, requested to turn their attention. 
It was proposed by Mr. Robison, and in reference thereto, the bill for printing 
the Transactions of the Society, and the Accounts of the Treasurers, were referred 
to the Committee ; that as these duties w ould require considerable exertion on the 
part of some individual Member of the Committee, Captain Jenkins be now 
requested to undertake it, under directions from the Committee. 
This proposal was seconded by the President, and Captain Jenkins kindly 
agreed to render every assistance in his power. 
It was proposed by the President, and agreed to by the Society, that all payments 
and disbursements of every kind be first sanctioned by the Committee of Manage- 
ment, and that having been so sanctioned, the Secretary, and one Member of the 
Committee of Management, do sign all checks that may be drawn upon the 
Treasurer of the Society, for such payment or disbursement. 
Mr. Minchin presented to the Society three Treatises by Mr. IngledeW, of 
Madras, on the Culture of the Mango, Vine, and Red Rose. 
The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Minchin, for his acceptable 
present 
Mr Mitchell, Head Gardener, submitted to the Meeting 14 bottles of Arrow 
Root, prepared by him from the Maranta Ai'unrlinacea , (the plant furnishing the 
real West India Arrow Root,) the produce of the Garden, and which had very 
lately been introduced into this country by Mr. Leycester, from the West Indies 
via the Cape of Good Hope 
Mr. Mitchell informed the Meeting, that the plant was of the most easy 
culture and very prolific, and that a farina, the very same as the real West India 
Arrow Root, could, in a short time, be manufactured here, to any extent, and 
free from adulteration, for the supply of the Hospitals, and ocher purposes ; and 
might soon become an article of export from Calcutta, instead of being imported 
into it, as at present, in large quantities, and always adulterated with Potato 
farina. 
A plant had been long known in India, called Teekhur, (the Curcuma 
Angustifolia of Botanists,) which furnished a farinaceous pow'der, resembling 
Arrow Root, and which Dr. Wallich thought well of as a substitute for the 
West India Powder, until the introduction of the real plant by Mr. Leycester 
in 1827, when he stated to this Society, his very great preference of the latter, 
and anxiety to see it widely introduced* 
