Report of Society's Meetings. 167 
The following donations to the Society were announc- 
ed ; and thanks ordered to be given to the donors : — 
Annual Report of Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, 
and reports of the Commissioner of Agriculture of Washington, 1865, 
1867-68-71, by Colonel Figyelmesey. 
The Circle of the Sciences, a Cyclopedia edited by James Wylde ; 
and other books, by C. H. Massiah. 
The meeting then terminated. 
Meeting held gth March. — His Honour Mr. Justice 
King in the Chair. 
There were present 10 members. 
Elections. — Honorary Member — Alexander Reid. 
Ordinary Member — John McCarthy, Gov- 
ernment Chemist, Trinidad. 
A letter was read from the Government Secretary, en- 
closing the Report, which at the previous meeting the 
present had suggested should be obtained as bearing on 
the question of lees brought up at that meeting. The 
Report was dated 1869, and was by the Commission who 
had at that date made enquiry into the subject of lees. 
A letter was read from the acting Government Sec- 
retary transmitting for the use of the Society, a copy of 
a work entitled, " Leprosy in British Guiana," by Dr. 
John D. Hillis, a medical officer in the colony. 
The meeting then dispersed. 
NOTE. — No meeting was held in April on account of 
certain repairs which necessitated the closing of the 
Rooms. 
