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xxviii General Meetiny, [February, 1907 



Meeting. 



Major W. J. Buchanan, I.M.S. 

 H. G, Graves, Esq. 



Lt.-Col. G. F. A. Harris, M.D., F.R.C.P., LM.S. 



Babu Monraohan Chakravarti, M^., B.L., 



The Meeting was then resolved into the Ordinary General 



The Hon. Mr. Justice Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, M.A., D.L., 

 President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Twenty-three presentations were announced. 



The following ten gentlemen were ballotted for as Ordinary 

 Members : 



The Hon, Mr. Lancelot Hare, C.S.L, C.I.E., Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor of Eastern Bengal and Assam, proposed by His Hononr Sir 

 Andrew Eraser, K.C.S.I., seconded by the Hon. Mr. Justice Asutosh 

 Mukhopadhyaya ; Major G, A, Hohertson, 15th Lancers, Depy. Secy.. 

 Military Supply Dept., proposed by Lt.-Col. D. C. Phillott, seconded 

 by Dr. N. Annandale ; Dr, Edward A. Houseman^ B.A., M.B., B.C., 

 (CantabO, Medical Officer, E. T. Railway, proposed by Major F. P. 

 Maynard, LM.S., seconded by Lt.-Col. D. C. Phillott ; Mr, 0. A. 

 Bell, I.C.S., pioposed by Captain W. F. O'Connor, R.A., seconded 

 by Lt.-Col, D. C. Phillott ; Mr. J. B. Barrmv^ Inspector of Schools, 

 Jorhat, proposed by Lt.-Col. D. C. Phillott, seconded by Dr. N* 

 Annandale ; Mr. M. W. Tr^ven^j F.R S., Director of Indian Insti- 

 tute of Science, Bangalore, proposed by Mr. H, E. Stapleton, 

 seconded by Lt.-CoL D. C. Phillott ; Mr. D. Petrze, Punjab Police, 

 HungTi, proposed by Lt.-Col. D. C. Phillott, seconded by Dr. N. 

 Annandale; Gaptam J, B. White, D.S.O-, Gordon Highlanders^ 

 Peshawar, proposed by Lt.-CoL D, C. Phillott, seconded by Dr. N. 

 Annandale ; JDr. /. _E. Pamoty, L.R.C.P. (Lond.), L.R.C P. and S. 

 CEdin.), proposed by Major F. O'Kinealy, I.M.S.. seconded by 

 Mr. St* John Stephen ; and Maulavi 8. Khuda Bakhsh, M.A., 

 (Oxon.), Bar.-at-law, proposed by Babu Manmohan Chakravarti, 

 seconded by Lt.-Col. D. C. Phillott. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. The Exact Determination of the Fastness of the more Cotn- 

 mo7i, Indigenous Dyes of Bengal and comparii^on with typical Synthe- 

 tic Dye-stuffs. Part I. — Dyeing on Cotton. — By E. R. Watson, M.A., 



B.Sc, 



This paper will be published in the Memoirs, 



2. Breynia Vredenburgi, an undescribed Echinoid from the 

 Indian Ocean.— By Major A. R. S. A:!CDERson, B.A., C.M.Z.S., 

 LM.S. 



This paper will be published in a subsequent number of the 

 Jotirnal. 



