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Also that the Council had appointed Col. H. Hyde, R. E., a Trustee 

 of the Indian Museum on the part of the Society in place of Mr. W. S. 

 Atkinson, resigned. 



The President laid hefore the meeting the following report of the 

 Stoliczka Memorial Committee, and stated that on the recommendation of 

 the Committee steps had been taken to procure a bust of the late Dr. 

 F. Stoliczka, but the Committee hoped to obtain a portrait also if funds 

 permitted. 



Stoliczka Memorial Fund. 



The Stoliczka Memorial Fund Committee think it desirable to furnish 

 the subscribers with information as to what has been done regarding the 

 memorial in Calcutta and London. 



The subscriptions to the Stoliczka Fund, collected and promised in India 

 up to the 31st December, 1874, amounted to Rs. 1,670, according to the 

 first list issued by the Committee. The subscriptions up to date amount 

 to Rs. 1,908. In October last, a Branch Committee was formed in London, 

 regarding which Dr. F. Day writes as follows : — 



" A meeting was held on October 16th, in the rooms of the Zoological 

 Society, 11, Hanover Square, to take into consideration the most appropriate 

 mode of raising a memorial to the late Dr. Ferdinand Stoliczka. 



" General Strachey, R. E., F. R. S., having been voted into the chair 

 and the circular of the Stoliczka Memorial Committee having been read, it 

 was resolved — 



" That this meeting desirous of cooperating with the Committee formed 

 in Calcutta for the procuring of some permanent memorial of the late Dr. 

 Ferdinand Stoliczka, requests 



General R. Strachey, 



Arthur Grote, Esq., 



Dr. Day, 



Dr. Dobson, 



H. F. Blanford, Esq. 



to act as a Committee to make arrangements for the collection of subscrip- 

 tions and to superintend the preparation of such memorial as may be decided 

 upon in communication with the Calcutta Committee. 



"That Arthur Grote, Esq., be requested to act as Honorary Treasurer 

 to the Fund and Dr. Day be requested to act as Honoraiy Secretary. 



" That a circular be sent to persons likely to be interested in the object 

 in view, informing them of the steps which have been taken and soliciting 

 their subscriptions. 



