Report of the Meetings of the Society. 
Meeting held ioth July. — The Honourable B. Howell 
Jones, President, in the chair. 
There were 16 members present. 
Elections. — Associates : John Wilson, Charles Borman, 
Reginald Bryan, Edward Pinnock and Henry 
Clementson. 
Locust Gum. — A letter was received from Mr. H. 
Kirke, dated Calcutta, 13th May, in which he wrote as 
follows :— " Messrs. Nobin Chunder Dutt & Co., of No. 
19, Dhurrumtollah Bazaar, in this city, have applied to 
me for some information with regard to locust gum or 
gum animi ; as they are anxious to purchase some for 
trade purposes. I shall be glad if you will let this be 
publicly known, so that any dealer in that gum who 
wishes to open a trade with Calcutta may communicate 
with the firm above-mentioned." 
The Campbell Memorial. — The Secretary read the 
following extract from a letter received by the Treasurer 
from Mr, W. Walker, of London : — " In accordance with 
your suggestion, I placed myself in communication with 
Mr. Browne, of Mincing Lane, and I enclose his son's 
reply, from which you will learn that the portrait of Mr 
A. W. Perot, now in the Georgetown Club, was executed 
by Mr. Halle, formerly of Regent Street, at the as- 
sumed cost of fifty guineas. Mr. Halle is, I imagine, not 
a portrait painter in the ' art sense,' but a reproducer of 
photographic portraits, in imitation of art portraits. I 
am glad Mr. Brown has reminded me of Mr. Thornycroft, 
a rising sculptor, whose name had not been previously 
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