NOV 23 1905 
LIBRARY 
NEW YORK 
MARCH, 10905. BOTANICAL 
GARDEN 
The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 
Wednesday, the lst March, 1905, at 9-15 p.m. 
C. W. McMiny, Esq., I.C.S. (vetired,) Vice-President, in the 
chair. 
The following members were present :— 
Mr. N. Annandale, Mr. R. Burn, Babu Monmohan Chakra- 
yarti, Mr. B. L. Chauduri, Rai Sarat Chandra Das Bahadur, 
Mr. J. N, Das Gupta, Mr. D. Hooper, Dr. W. C. Hossack, Dr. 
H. H. Mann, Capt. J. H. D. Megaw, Captain L. Rogers, I.M.S., 
Pandit Yogesa Chandra Sastree, Babu Jogendra Nath Vidyabhusan, 
Pandit Satis Chandra Vidyabhushana, Mr. H. Vredenburg. 
Visitors :—Mr. D. MacDonald, Mr. 8. C. Sanial, Babu Bra- 
jendra Kumar Seal. 
The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
Eleven presentations were announced. 
Rey. A. Willifer Young, Mr. W. B. Brown, Miss Cornelia 
Sorabjee, Babu Sasi Bhushan Bose, Mr. 8. C. Sanial, and Babu 
Muralidhar Banerji, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Mem- 
bers. 
It was announced that Dr. A. HE. Caddy had expressed a 
wish to withdraw from the Society. 
The Chairman announced that a second Elliott gold medal 
had been awarded to Babu Surendra Nath Maitra, M.A., for his 
essay entitled “‘On the Experimental Determination of the Elec- 
tro-chemical equivalent of Nickel,” submitted in competition for the 
Elliott Prize for Scientific Research for 1904, under Rule G of 
notification in the Calcutta Gazette of the 28th December, 1892. 
The General Secretary read the following report of the Sub- 
Committee appointed by Council to consider the style, paper 
and design of the Society’s publications held on Wednesday, the 
22nd February, 1905, at 8 a.m. 
Resolved— 
1. The Committee is of opinion that by the establish- 
ment of a quarto publication for the larger memoirs, the 
residue of small papers can be conveniently published in a single 
Journal styled the “ Journal and Proceedings ” of the Society issued 
on the lines of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 
2. That the paper most appropriate for use in all the Society's 
publications is that employed for the Quarterly Journal of the 
Geological Society, in which photo-blocks can be printed with 
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