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the garden on the mountains under his charge, if the Society would supply him 
with such ; and ottering to return the acclimated produce, and to assist the Society 
in every way which lay in liis power. 
Mr. Nathaniel Alexander presenter! to the Meeting a Paper by Mr. Wilkinson, of 
London, on Indigo, as a mercantile speculation, and some additions to his own 
essay on that subject, presented at the last Meeting. 
The thanks of the Society were voted to the several donors and writers men- 
tioned. 
Sir Robert Colquhoun submitted the report of the Garden Committee ; includ- 
ing the resignation of Mr. Mitchcl, the gardener, of that situation ; which was im- 
mediately accepted. 
Sir Robert Colquhoun further reported, that the Garden Committee had taken a 
lease for two years of a piece of ground adjoining the garden, for Agricultural 
purposes ; — a measure which was approved of and confirmed. 
It was moved by Mr. Robison, and carried ; — that the Garden Committee be re- 
quested to prepare, and lav before the Society at its next meeting, a report on the 
garden, exhibiting the objects and grounds, on which Governmeut had been soli- 
cited to bestow it on the Society in ) 827 ; — the rules theu drawn up, and approved 
of, for carrying those objects into effect ; — the sums which had since been laid out 
on the garden ; — the objects and plans now pursuing by the Committee ; and last- 
ly, a distinct account of the present state of the garden ; and bow far, in the Com- 
mittee's opinion, the expectations of Government and the Society have been rea- 
lized. 
The President suggested the propriety of the Society annually nominating a 
Committee of Papers, consisting of the Office Bearers of the Society, and five ordi- 
nary Members, before whom the Secretary should lay all such essays and papers, 
as had been read before the Society, for the purpose of enabling the Committee to 
select such as were most fitted for publication in the Transactions of the Society. 
It was resolved accordingly, that the following Gentlemen form the Committee 
for the present year : Mr. Cidder, Mr. Hurry, Captain Jenkins, Mr. Minchin, and 
Sir Robert Colquhoun, Bart. 
On the motion of Sir Edward Ryan, Babu Dwarkanath Tacore, and Radama- 
dab Bonnerji, were added to the Committee. 
It was resolved, that the morning of the second Wednesday in January next, (the 
13th) be appointed for the annual sbow of vegetables, and the distribution of prizes, 
in the Town Hall ; and that the annual election of Office Bearers for the following 
year, be held on the same evening, and in the same place, after which there should 
be an Anniversary Dinner, at which, such members might attend as previously gave 
in their names to Messrs. Gunter and Hooper. 
Wednesday, 25 th November. 
Sir E. Ryan in the Chair. 
A special general meeting was held at the Town Hal! for the purpose of consider- 
ing the answer proposed to be given to a letter received from Government. 
The following gentlemen were elected members of the Society, Mr. C. T. Glass, 
Lieut. Col. Frith, Dr. J. Clark, of Mimgher, Mr. B. D. Colvin, of Calcutta, Mr. J. 
Marshman, of Serampore. 
Read a letter from the Deputy Secretary to Government, to the Secretary to the 
Society, dated 20th October last, communicating the desire of the Right Hon. the 
Governor General in Council to promote the cultivation of Cotton and Tobacco of 
a superior description, as well as of the improvement of the quality of Raw Silk, 
and of other articles of raw produce, calculated for the Home Market ; as also the 
disposition of Government to cooperate in such measures and arrangements as may 
appear likely to conduce to the above end ; and requesting the Society to report, for 
the information of His Lordship in Council, the mode in which it may appear to 
them the aid of Government can be most usefully given, it being understood that 
it was not the intention of Government to interfere in any manner with the proceed- 
ings of the Society. 
The President) informed the Meeting, that the above letter had, at his suggestion, 
been referred, in the first place, to the consideration of the Agricultural Committee, 
which had, after due consideration, framed the draft of a reply to the Government, 
and which he now begged might be read, and the sense of the Meeting taken upon 
it. 
