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asked to make an experiment to the extent of one acre 
at Cbristianburg where there was plenty of suitable 
places. 
The suggestions of the President and Prof. Harrison 
were agreed to, and the Secretary was requested to 
write to the Imperial Institute and Government Secretary. 
A communication from the Government Secretary 
forwarding a sample of Jute grown and prepared at 
Uruan was read and taken for notification, and the fibre 
ordered to be placed in the Museum 
A second Government communication in reference to 
an International Congress of Zoology to be held at Cam- 
bridge was also read and taken for notification. 
The Librarian laid on the table copies of the third 
supplement to the Library Catalogue. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded for the 
following donations : — 
To the Library — from Mr. S. G. T. Bourke ; Walis- 
zewski's Roman d'une Imperatrice ; Hanotaux' Cardinal 
de Richelieu, 2 Vols, ; Perey's Une Princesse Romaine; 
and Memoires de Duchesse de Gontaut. 
To the Museum, as follows — Native Guinea pig, G. S. 
,Jenman; Harlequin beetle, Surinam, F. G. Christie; 2 
Tyrant shrikes. Dr. Dickson ; caligo butterfly, VVm. Seon ; 
coralline sand — Barbados, and mantis, G. F. Franks; 
sponge and coral, 150 miles from lightship, Master 
Goddard ; moth, E. Hughes ; moth, Miss Murray ; 3 sam- 
ples of Barima rocks; J. B. Harrison; caterpillars and 
duplicate letter written in 1824, by Mr. P. Benjamin to 
James H. Albouy, Mr. F. A. Conyers; wild ochre fibre — 
2i lbs. from 40 lbs. of stripped plants, H. Rickford; 
antique Dutch jar, Wm. Morison. 
