xxxvi Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Feb., 1909. 
The ee reported that there were two vacancies in 
the list of Associate Members, and the Council, therefore, 
recommended Mr. Balkrishna Atmaram Gupte for election as 
an Associate Member at the next meeting. 
Mr. Gupte has been Assistant Director of Ethnography for 
India for the last seven years. He has done much for ndian 
Ethnography in nee useful information ia adding to 
the sum of our wledge of this subject. At present he is 
acting Assistant Saoestary to the Victoria re Trustees, 
and Curator of the Victoria Memorial Exhibiti 
The following five gentlemen were balloted as Ordinary 
Members: 
ment of India, Home Department, proposed by Sir Thomas 
Holland, K.C.I.E., seconded by Dr. E. D. Ross ; 
Sommerfeldt, Ph.D., F.C.S., F.G.8S., 4, Pollock Street, proposed 
by Dr. C. ponte , seconded By. Professor J. A. Cunningham ; 
Professor J. J. ack, M.A. (Cantab.), Muir Central College, 
Allahabad, proposed by Prof. J. A. Cunningham, seconded ‘by 
Mr. C. W. Peake; Babu Priyanath Sen, M.A., D.L., Vakil, 
High Court, Galeutta, proposed by Pandit Yogesa few Sastri- 
Samkhyaratna-Vedat tirtha, seconded by the Hon. Mr. Justice 
Asutosh Mukhopadhaya; Babu Charn Deb Banerjee, B.A., ” 
12, Elgin Road, Allahabad, proposed by the Hon. Mr. ’ Justice 
Asutosh Mukhopadhaya, seconded by Dr. Girindra Nath Mukho- 
padhyaya. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. The Hero Gods of the Rigveda—Trita.—By A. C. SEN, 
LC.S. (retired). 
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2. On the Correlations of Areas of Matured Crops and the 
eh gal and certain allied problems in Agriculture and Meteor- 
ology.— By S. M. Jacos, I.C.S. 
This paper will be published i in the Memoirs. 
. Bengali phan ein and their Gencrut Characteristics. zoBy 
MoNMOHAN CHAKRAVARTI, eB: 
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3 coh paper will be published i in a ‘subsequent number of the 
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4, ag aise alg propensity of genus Haplochilus.— 
By B. L. Cuaupuvrt, B.Sc. aud tee 
It is now sat & year since we have been trying to 
discover the comparative value and usefulness of some surface- 
swimming small fish in wee pds _ in our 
stagnant pools and other confined wate 
