'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From December 1854 to March 1856. (New Issue.) Edited by the Secretary. Volume XII.' [‎59] (76/258)

MEETINGS OF DECEMBER, 1854— MAT, 1855. Hx
caoutchouc juice, thickened, apparently by some fungous matter, overspread
the surface of the wood, and this was traversed by numberless rootlets, shoot
ing down from the nearest healthy margin of bark from above, towards the
lower portion, with which it was connected. In the course of a few months I
presume these rootlets will ensheathe the injured portions of the tree like the
net-work formed by those of the Banyan Merchant of Indian extraction. , and come either to supply the place
of bark, or to be covered over and absorbed by it.
It is not necessary to go further into the convalescence of the denizens of our
forests from the injuries inflicted on them in elemental strife,—it may be con
sidered superfluous to have gone thus far ; but as I am not aware of the matter
having been taken up before, and as it seems of interest that all the most not
able of the effects of great atmospheric disturbances should be adverted to,
perhaps the present remarks may draw forth observations more worthy of pub
lication than these pretend to be, from parties competent to write on the sub
ject, and where hurricanes of greater violence and longer duration than that
of November 1854 have prevailed.
Tke ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Geographical Society took place on
mursday the 21st December, when there was a tolerable attendance of Euro
peans and Native visitors.
r [Dr. Buist delivered a lecture on the History of Arctic Discovery, and gave a
short notice of the Dunds and the Salt formation in Scinde.—The lecture will be
round in a somewhat extended form amongst the papers. ]
The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Bombay Geographical Society took
place on Thursday, the 15th March.
W* F. Hunter, Esq., and L. Anderson, Esq., were duly elected.
Dr. Buist gave an account of a singular experiment in evaporation where
tides make their appearance in the exhalations of the vapour.
Some Notes on a recent journey, through Kattiawar and Guzerat, with spe
cimens, were laid before the meeting by the Secretary.
[The lecture will be found amongst the papers.]
The Annual General Meeting of the Bombay Geographical Society took
place on 14th May, the Hon’ble A. Malet, Esq., Vice President of the Socie
ty, in the chair.
1 he minutes of the last annual meeting were read and approved of. The
Secretary then read the following
REPORT FROM MAY 1854 TO MAT 1855.
The following is the state of our Accounts for the year—it may be super-
iuous to read them in detail, as they require to be submitted to the Committee
on accounts for audit before acceptance.