Report of Society's Meetings. 97 
The annexed Government communication was read, 
and the plans referred to therein ordered to be laid on 
the table :— 
" Sir, — In continuation of the letter from this Office of 
the loth November last, No. 7156, I have the honour, by 
dire6lion of the Governor to forward, for the inspe6lion 
of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, three 
plans of rice-milling machines, which have been trans- 
mitted for the information of this Government by the 
Emigration Agent for the Colony at Calcutta. 
2. 1 shall be glad if you will return these plans." 
CAVENDISH BOYLE. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded for the 
following donations : — 
To the Library — from Mr. H. J. Gladwin, 6 Vols. 
« Nature." 
To the Museum, as follows ; — Large Fruit-eating Bat 
and Inse6l, A. Lennox ; Chimachima Hawk, A. A. 
Craigen ; Young Waterhaas, Fox and Bees, G. S. Jen- 
man ; Cicada, E. A. V, Abraham ; Haitian Copper Coin, 
and Seal Impression, F. A. Conyers; Egg of Goatsucker, 
young eggs and nest of Blue Gauldings, H. L. Hum- 
phrys ; Grecian Coin, Rev. P. B. Austin ; Armadillo, 
A. Hugo Loth ; Coin of French Guiana, Budhoo ; Lea, 
Impression on Iron-stone, Dr. Lungwitz; Jasper Pebble, 
H. C. Menzies ; *Living Labarria Snake, William 
* This specimen of the Labarria, which is about three feet in length, 
presents very considerable differences in colouration from the other 
specimen recently presented by Mr. Dunn, and serves well to illustrate 
the very great range of variation to which the species is subject. The 
ground colour is altogether darker, the markings more indistinct 
and irregular, and the scales more imbricate, elongated and keeled. Both 
specimens, alivej are to be seen in the same case with the rattlesnakes ; and 
as the species is the commonest met with in the Colony of all the poisonous 
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