1876.] 'Proposed Registration of tJie Society. IV? 



but I cannot recollect amongst which, nor have I succeeded in finding 

 figures of similar forms. Two are square bird-bolts, the others are three- 

 edged, three of them having a conical or conoidal and one an elliptical 

 longitudinal section ; in one the three sharpened longitudinal edges are 

 concave ; none are distinctly barbed. The heads are about 2 to 1\ inches 

 long, (those of the bird-bolts being shorter) and are furnished with a slender 

 basal termination for fitting into the shaft. 



The Chairmajs" announced that the Council j)roposed to register the 

 Society under Act XXI of 1860. 



The object of the Registration was to obtain for the Society a definite 

 legal status as a corporate body, and they would at the same time secui-e the 

 right of proceeding against defaulters in the Civil and Criminal courts. As 

 the Society now possessed large vested funds, the Council considered it 

 very desirable that this step should be taken. Under Section XVII of the 

 Act it was laid down that no Society established previously to the j)assing 

 of the Act, but not registered under Act XLIII, of 1850, should be registered 

 under the Act unless an assent to its being so registered had been given by 

 three-fifths of the members present jDersoually or by proxy, at some General 

 Meeting convened for that purpose by the governing body. The question 

 would therefore be brought up for vote at the next meeting and in the 

 meanwhile a coj)y of the Act would lie at the Society's Rooms for the in- 

 sj)ection of members wishing to refer to it. 



The Council reported that they have appointed Mr. John Elliott, 

 M. A., and Mr. A. M. Nash, M. A., members of the Physical Science and 

 Library Committees. 



The following papers were read : — 

 1. On certain 'protracted Irregularities of Atmospheric Pressure in the 



Indian Monsoon-region, and their relation to Variations of the Local 



Bainfall.—Bij H. F. Blaneoed, Esq., F. G. S. 



(Abstract). 



Mr. Blantord said that the subject of the paper which he had to 

 bring before the Society was one of considerable interest, not only on ac- 

 count of its scientific bearings, but also, because in the validity of the views 

 now put forward, lay our best hope of accomplishing the desired object of 

 Meteorological Science, that of to some extent forecasting the conditions 

 of a season's rainfall. 



It discussed two theses. First, that amid all the changes to wliich at- 

 mospheric pressure is incessantly sul)ject, including the redistribution of 

 pressure over the whole coimtry at the change of the monsoons, certain 

 peculiar featiu'es tend to perj^etuatc or reproduce themselves ; that, never- 



