AUGUST, 1914 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 

 Wednesday, the 5th August, 1914, at 9-15 p.m. 



Lieut.-Colonel Sir L. Rogers, Kt., CLE., M.D., B.S., 

 F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., F.A.S.B., I.M.S., Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



The following members were present : 



Maulavi Abdul Wali, Dr. N. Annandale, Mr. J. Coggin 

 Brown, Dr. P. J. Bruhl, Mr. C C Calder, Dr. B. L. Chau- 

 dhuri, Mr. F. H. Gravely, Mr. H. C Jones, Mr. R. D. Mehta, 

 CLE., Mr. C S. Middlemiss, Mr. E. B. H. Panton, Dr. Satis 

 Chandra Vidyabhusana, Rev. J. Watt. 



Visitors :— Mr. B. C Dutt and Mr. S. N. Sen. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



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Thirteen presentations were announced. 



The General Secretary reported that the Hon. Mr. Henry 

 Sharp, C I.E., Babu Ganesh Lai Barik, and Major John Wallace 

 Dick Megaw, I.M.S., have expressed a desire to withdraw from 

 the Society. 



The Chairman announced that the Council has added the 

 name of Mr. G. H. Tipper to the Library Committee. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for as Ordinary 

 Members : 



Signor L. P. Tessitori, D.Litt., Officer in charge of the 

 Bardic Chronicles, 8, Esplanade, Calcutta, proposed by Dr. N. 

 Annandale, seconded by Mr. F. H. Gravely ; Babu Bimala Churn 

 Law,B.A., Zemindar, 24, Sukea Street, Calcutta, proposed by 

 Dr. B. L. Chaudhuri, seconded by Babu Gopal Das Chaudhun. 



Mr. J. Coggin Brown exhibited three new Indian meteor- 

 ites. 



The following papers were read : 



1 . Note on the A pplication of the Principle of Isostatic Com- 

 pensation to the Conditions prevailing beneath the Indo-Gangetic 

 Alluvium.— By H. H. Hayden, C.I.E., D.Sc. {Postponed from 

 June meeting). 



This paper has been published in the Journal for July, 



1914. 



