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tamed. It appeared well suited for all common purposes, and in some respects is 
superior to the Bavarian stone ; viz. in the depth of the impressions and the clear- 
ness with which it gives them out. 
2, — Medical and Physical Society. 
Wednesday , 4M April . 
Messrs. W. Venour, W. B. Webster, G. Anderson, and H. Crocket, proposed at a 
former meeting, were duly elected. 
Letters were read from the Madras and Bombay Medical Boards, intimating the 
acceptance of these bodies collectively, of the office of Patrons of the Society, and 
of the Chairmen individually of that of Vice-President, as resolved at a former 
Meeting. 
From the following Members communications were read, requesting that their 
names be withdrawn from the list of subscribers to the Society, on the ground spe- 
cified by the others whose withdrawal was intimated at the preceding Meeting,— 
namely, the recent reduction of their allowances, and their inability to meet contin- 
gent expenses ; viz Mr. A. Wood, Surgeon of Artillery, and Messrs. G. G. Browne, 
J. T. Pearson, E. J. Agnew, H. Fulton, A. V. Dunlop, and G. Turnbull, Assistant 
Surgeons. With reference to these intimations it was resolved, that, should the gen- 
tlemen who have withdrawn their names, hereafter, from any cause, think proper 
again to join the Society, they shall be considered eligible, without going through 
the form of ballot, or paying any additional admission fee. 
The 1st volume of the Transactions of the Agricultural Society was presented by 
that body, and a copy of the Moonzal Quantum , a medical work in Arabic, by the 
General Committee of Public Instruction, for the Library of the Society. 
The following papers were then read and discussed by the Meeting : Some Obser- 
vations on particular Remedies for the Cure of Cholera, by Mr. R. M. Martin : An 
Account of the Progress of the experimental Medicinal Garden at Massuria, by Mr. 
Royle, communicated by the Medical Board. 
Wednesday , 2nd May. 
' A letter was read from Mr. A. Gibson, of the Bombay establishment, requesting 
his name might be withdrawn from the Society on the same plea as was expressed 
by the other Members who have seceded, viz. the great reduction in his income by 
the recent Government orders, which are in operation at that presidency in the same 
manner as in Bengal. A letter was read from Mr. Bernard, proposing that the So- 
ciety should address Government on the subject of the recent orders reducing the 
allowances ot medical officers. It was resolved, that the objects of the Society be- 
ing purely scientific, and many members of it not belonging cither to H. M.’s or the 
” om P an y s Service, they could not with propriety adopt Mr, B.'s proposal. 
The following communications received since the last Meeting were submitted by 
the Secretary : An Essay on Phlebitis, or Inflammation of the Veins, by Mr. Greig: 
A Case of, and Observations on, Infantile Cataract, by Mr. Raleigh. Specimens of Epsom 
Salts, prepared at Balramgcrhi near Balkar by Mr. Ince, were presented by the 
Rev. Mr. Garrow Dr. Conwell, of the Madras Establishment, acting staff surgeon 
Prince of \\ ales Island, presented for the Library a copy of a work by himself on In- 
^ a ^H ,0 R C K D ‘n ! ? Se ’e nd u* 6 <>f tbe StetUos c°P«, together with the instrument 
“ m r . R,1 '“ C °f n e 8 Ohs . ervations on the Native Employment of Msd&, 
Meeting M gh Ca3e of Cataract m an lnf ant, were then read and discussed by the 
3. — Agricultural Society. 
Thursday, 21jC May. 
Honorable Sir E. Ryan in the Chair. 
du^elert^LA DobbJ ” v ^severaUy propose as members of the Society, and 
Frederick BVsr^ . ° ,. H “ nIan ’ E Sr ‘- John Master, Esq., Lieut. Col. 
V rIi K • L -, Ma , st( ' r > Esq., C - Hoard. Esq., J. Allan, Esq., F. V Fergusson, 
Esq., Rajah Narsmchander Rdi, Babu Lali Mohen Tagor, Babu Bissundth Mdti 
th^hel^ft^^Anniversa^Dini^er.^ 16 "“"h 6 " adj ° Urned to the upper hall, where 
BelhnKat doie f thZ d *h he , meetiD *’ tbe Governor General and Lady William 
tsentmek had done them the honour to become Patron and Patroness of the Society. 
