196 Course of Scientific Lectures. [Dec. 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw from 

 the Society. — 



R. T. H. Griffith, Esq. 

 Captain T. H. Lewin. 

 The Hon. R. Spankie. 

 Dr. J. B. Baxter. 

 R. B. Smart, Esq. 



The Council reported that Messrs. H. B. Medlicott and J. Geoghegan 

 had heen elected Members of Council in place of the Hon. Sir R. Couch 

 and J. Westland, Esq., resigned. 



The Chairman announced that the Council had, on the recommendation 

 of the Philological Committee, sanctioned the publication of the Aitareya 

 A'ranyaka, and the Brihaddhevata in the Bibliotheca Indica at the sugges- 

 tion of Prof. Max Miiller. 



The Council also reported that 24 oil paintings belonging to the 

 Society's collection, comprising the majority of the portraits of by-gone 

 members of the Society, with a few of the valuable paintings by Rubens and 

 other old masters, had been put into the hands of Mr. D. Garrick to be 

 cleaned and repaired at a cost of about Rs. 1,075. This step was rendered 

 absolutely necessary by the very bad condition of many of the paintings, 

 and should have been done long ago had the funds of the Society permitted it. 



The Chairman announced that it was proposed to hold a series of 

 lectures on popular science and subjects connected with India, during the cold 

 season and that arrangements had been made for commencing the series by a 

 lecture on " Recent Discoveries in Spectrum Analysis," by A. Pedler Esq. 

 Lectures had also been promised by — 



The Hon. J. B. Phear — " On Glimpses of old India through the pages 

 of Manu." 



Mr. H. F. Blanford— " On the Winds of Northern India." 



Mr. Blochmann — " On Thoughts and Ideas peculiar to the East." 



Mr. J. Wood-Mason — " On Embryology." 



Babu Rajendralala Mitra — " On Recent Oriental Researches." 



The sequence of the lectures had not yet been finally arranged, but it 

 was proposed to hold two lectures in January and February, and one or 

 more in March. 



On account of the extremely limited space at the Society's disposal, it 

 had been found necessary to limit the number of tickets to 200. As there 

 were about 130 resident members in Calcutta, it was not possible to give 

 each member two tickets, one for himself and one for a friend. The Council 

 had therefore arranged that one ticket should be sent to each resident 

 member, and that members who required another ticket, should obtain one 



