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Another was given by Dr. Denison Ross on the life and work 
of the celebrated Hungarian Csoma de Koros, whose zeal and 
energy in prosecuting an enquiry into the ancestry of his race 
led him, many years ago, to undertake a journey on foot from 
his native land to India, a journey that, even at the present 
day, would be fraught with no slight hardship and peril, and 
whose researches into the language and topography of that 
then little-known land, Tibet, have enriched the pages of our 
Journal. It may not be out of place to mention that Dr. Ross’ 
lecture at once attracted much attention in Hungary, where 
the name of their compatriot is deservedly honoured by men 
of letters. 
Other lectures included one by Colonel Phillott on the 
Memoirs of Sepoy Sita Ram (A.D. 1797—1860), a Sepoy who, 
early in the last century, took service under John Company, 
and survived to witness and record the exciting scenes of 
the Mutiny; another by Prof. Harrison, on that most interest- 
ing phenomenon, Halley’s Comet, whose appearance enabled 
bodies upon the destinies of the human race, no one can fail to 
be struck by the fact that this comet’s latest manifestation 
coincided with an event which, to the sorrow of the nation, 
may lay claim to be considered as of no less importance than 
many of those which have attended its baleful progress in the 
past; need I say that I allude to the death of our beloved 
Sovereign, Edward VII. And, lastly, I have to mention a lec- 
ture by myself on the effects which, as I venture to think, 
were produced even in these low latitudes by the general re- 
frigeration of climate over the northern hemisphere known as 
the ‘Glacial Period,” during the progress of which, in all 
probability, the culminating point in the slow evolution of 
living organisms was reached with the appearance of man upon 
the surface of the earth. It is possible, as I endeavoured to 
show, that even at the present day the vagaries of the great 
rivers of the Indo-Gangetic plain may be affected by the pecu- 
liar conditions that prevailed during that far-off time. 
An event to which allusion should also be made is the addi- 
desert. Only three leaves of this manuscript are known to be 
in existence, besides those now in the possession of the Society. 
One of these is preserved in the Ethnographical Museum at 
Berlin, while the other two were procured by Prof. Ellsworth 
