LIBRARY 
NEW YORK 
BOTANICAL 
JULY, 1905. . GARDEN. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 
Wednesday, the 5th July, 1905, at 9-15 p.m. 
His Honour Sir A. H. L. Fraser, M.A., LU.D., K.C.S.L, 
President, in the Chair. 
The following members were present :— 
Dr. N. Annandale, Rai Sarat Chandra Das, Bahadur, C.1.E., 
Mr. lL. L. Fermor, Mr. D. Hooper, Mr K. N. Knox, Mr. J. 
Macfarlane, Dr. M. M. Masoom, Major F. P. Maynard, I.M.S., 
The Hon. Mr. A. Pedler, Major D. C. Phillott, 1.A., Captain L. 
Rogers, I.M.S., Mr. S. C. Sanial, Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad 
Shastri, Mr. R. R. Simpson, Mr. G. H. Tipper, Pandit Satis Chandra 
Vidyabhusana, Mr. H. Vredenburg, The Rev. A. W. Young. 
Visitors :—Mr. Hallowes, Capt W. B. Rennie, I.A. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Forty presentations were announced. 
It was announced that Mr. L. Morshead had expressed a wish 
to withdraw from the Society. 
The General Secretary reported the death of Raja Jayakrishna 
Das, Bahadur, an Ordinary Member, and Dr. W. T. Blanford, 
F.R.S., an Honorary Member of the Society. 
Read abstracts from programmes from the following Con- 
gresses and Exhibition :— 
1. From Congres International d’Hxpansion Hconomique 
Mondiale, 1905. 
An International Congress of World-wide Hconomic Hxpan- 
sion (Congrés International d’Hxpansion Economique Mondiale) is 
to be held under the auspices of the Government of Belgium at 
Mons in September next (1) subscribe, (2) draw up a report, (3) 
send a delegate. The organisers suggest that the Society would 
be particularly interested in the section which relates to the follow- 
ing question :— 
Which are the best ways of booking observations in uncivilised 
regions in order to obtain scientific notions on the native, social 
life, and manners and customs, and raise them to a higher civiliza- 
tion ? 
2. From Congrés International pour l’étude de la radiologie 
et de Vionisation, Liege, 1905. 
An International Congress for the Study of Radiology and 
Ionisation is to be held under the auspices of the Government of 
AB 
JUN 11 1906 
