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The following were ballotted for as Ordinary Members : 



Mr. John Goggin Brown^ Assistant Superintendent, Geological 

 Survey of India, proposed by Mr. L. L, Fernior, seconded by 

 Lieut,- Colonel D. C. Phillott; Mr. H, Walker, Assistant Superin- 

 tendent, Geological Survey of India, proposed by Mr. L. L. 

 Fermor, seconded By Lieut. -Colonel D. C. Phillott ; Mr. G, deT. 

 Cotter, Assistant Superintendent, Geological Survey of India, pro- 

 posed by Mr. L. L. Termor, seconded by Lieut-Colonel D. C. 

 Phillott ; Mr. W. A. K. Ghristiey Chemist, Geological Survey of 

 India, proposed by Mr. L. L. Fermor, seconded by Lieut.- Colonel 

 D. C. Phillott ; Babu Mahendra Nath Be, M.A., B.Sc, Professor, 

 Bengal National College, Calcutta, proposed by Babu Amulya 

 Charan Vidyabhusana, seconded by Mahamahopadhyaya Satis 

 Chandra Vidyabhusana ; Miss Mary Y, Corbett, Church of Scot- 

 land Mission, Darjeeling, proposed by Mr. E. Mackenzie, seconded 

 by Lieut.-Colonel D. C. Phillott; and Mr. W. W. K. Page, Solici- 

 tor, Calcutta, proposed by Mr. J- A. Chapman, seconded by 

 Lieut.-Colonel D. C. Phillott. 



The following papers were read : 



1. Mundari Poetry, Music and Dances. — By Rev. Fr. J. Hoff- 

 mann, S.J. Communicated by the Hon. Mr. E. A. Gait. 



This paper will be published in the Memoirs. 



2. An Old Christian Cemetery in Haiderabad. — By Major W, 



HAia 



Tliis paper will be published in a subsequent number of the 

 Journal* 



3. Note on the Bidri ware of Purneah.—By R. J. Hirst. 



4. Seven stories from the Nafhat'^ H-Yaman ; edited and 

 translated by Lieut.-Colonel D. C. Phillott and B. F. Azoo. 



5. Notes on the Pollination of Flowers in India. — Note No. 4, 

 On Cotton in Behar. — By I. H. Buekill. 



6. Indian Logic as preserved in Tibet. — No, 3. By Mahama- 

 hopadhyaya Satis Chandra Vidyabhtjsana. M.A., M.R.A.S. 



Reviews on Books* 



Western Tibet and the British Borderland. By Charles A. Sheering, I.C.S. 



(London, Edward Arnold, 1906.) 



^ Among the many publications recently called forth by the 

 British Mission to Tibet, few have dealt with the western portion 

 ^ the province which marches with Kashmir and the British 

 l^orderland. Lhasa, in Centeral Tibet, so long veiled in mystery 

 as the forbidden city, the final goal of the Mission, naturally 



