The COMMITTEE OF COLONIES AND TRADE closes our list. It is instituted expressly for the purpose of pointing out to the inhabitants of the British Colonies new objects for their active industry, and of opening in those distant and valuable possessions fresh sources of public wealth and private emolument. In order to be of much use, it requires active and intelligent correspondents in the more important settlements, on whose representations, founded on personal and local knowledge, the Society must greatly depend. Such were the late Dr. Roxburgh, in the service of the East India company, and Dr. Anderson, the superintendent of the botanical garden of the island of St.Vincent. To the exertions of these gentlemen the public is much indebted; one of whom may be regarded as the founder of the East India indigo trade; and the other as the zealous promoter of the cultivation of spices, and of other valuable oriental products in the islands of the British West Indies. They have died, and have left no successors behind them. Our rewards having now been bestowed, and the observations which I have deemed it necessary to make having now been gone through, nothing remains but that, in the name of the Society, I should return thanks to those visitor who have honoured this our annual ceremony by their countenance and presence; and to express to his Royal Highness the grateful sense which we all entertain of the dignity and ability with which he has presided on the present occasion, PRESENTS PRESENTS RECEIVED BY THE SOCIETY FROM MAY, 1817, TO DECEMBER, 1817. With the NAMES of the DONORS. A MR. GEORGE OGG. LECTURE on the prevention and cure of the Dry Rot. J. C. CURWEN, ESQ. M. P. V. P. The Titles, Contents and Indexes, of the Sessional Papers of the House of Commons from 1806, to 1816. THE TRANSLATOR. DE PRADT on the Colonies. · HIGHLAND SOCIETY. The Prize Essays of the Society, JAMES PEARSALL, ESQ. An Appendix to the Report on the Royal Visit to the City. Mr. THOMAS WOODFALL, (the Assistant Secretary.) A Specimen of Printing in Gold. WILLIAM TOOKE, ESQ. Reports of the Committee of the House of Commons, on the Employment of Climbing Boys to sweep Chimnies. ASIATIC SOCIETY. The 12th Volume of their Researches. JAMES ASPERNE, ESQ. The 71st Volume of the European Magazine, BATH SOCIETY. The 13th and 14th Volumes of the Transactions of their Society A. AIKIN, ESQ. Observations on the Shropshire Witherite. A Notice of some Peculiarities observed in the Gravel of Litchfield. F. ACCUM, Esq. His Chemical Amusement. EDWARD EDWARD EDWARDS, Esq, Dufief's Nature displayed in her Mode of teaching Language to Man, adapted to the Spanish, 2 Vols. A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages, 3 Vols. BY THE AUTHOR. Considerations on the British Commerce, with reference particularly to British India. MESSRS. ALLMAN. A Narrative of the Conduct and Adventures of H. F. Moon. MATTHEW GREGSON, ESQ. Specimens of Wood Engravings. J. WHITE, Esq. A Glass Dish from Norway.' MASTER J. C. BARLACE. A Portrait of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, THOMAS RICKMAN. An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Archi tecture, from the Conquest to the Reformation. R. VERRALL, R. VERRALL, Esq. A Specimen of Sussex Marble, JOHN HENNING, ESQ. A Frame, containing in miniature the West Frieze of the Portico of the Temple of Minerva, copied from the Elgin Marbles and restored. SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES, Part the 2nd of the 18th Vol. of Archæologia. Six Engravings. C. PYE, ESQ, MR. JOHN HORNSEY. The New Young Man's Companion, with a Portrait. A CATA |