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at Ms destination the house had failed, and the young adventurer's 

 prospects were at an end. He soon, however, obtained a commission 

 in the service of His Highness the Kizam, to whom he remained 

 devotedly attached throughout his whole career. Exchanging his 

 military for a civil appointment, he acquired an extensive knowledge 

 of the people and languages of southern India ; and as Judge, 

 engineer, artist, and man of letters, he studied the laws, antiquities, 

 geological features and literature of the countiy. In 1850 he was 

 appointed to administer, during a long minority, the principality 

 of the young Rajah of Shorapore, and during the mutiny in India he 

 was ahle to hold his ground without requiring any militaiy aid. His 

 merits were highly appreciated hy the British Grovemment, and on his 

 retirement from service he received from Her ^Majesty the honour of 

 being made a Companion of the Star of India. His thorough know- 

 ledge and sympathetic appreciation of the ideas and manners of the 

 native races of India were exhibited in several able and successful 

 works of fiction, the scene of which was laid in that country. 



Our Transactions and Proceedings contain several valuable contribu- 

 tions fi'om his pen, amongst which may be named "a Catalogue 

 of Indian Musical Instmments," " Description of the Contents of a 

 Cairn at Hyat i^uggur in the Dekhan;" and "a Description of 

 Cairns, Cromlechs, Kistvaens, and other Monuments in the Dekhan." 

 In the numerous illustrations, from his original sketches, which 

 accompany the last-mentioned memoii", there is evidence of his well- 

 known artistic powers. Those who had the pleasure of knowing 

 Colonel Taylor will long retain the impression made on them by the 

 combined earnestness and gentleness of his character, and the singular 

 charm of his conversation and manners. He was for several years a 

 Member of the Council of the Academy. 



The Report was adopted. 



The following Grants, recommended by the Council out of the 

 Parliamentary Grant for the preparation of Scientific Pteports, were 

 adopted : — 



£50 to Rev. Professor Haughton, M. D., for Reports on the Tidal 

 Constants of the Irish Coast ; being the second instalment of the sum 

 of £100 required for the expenses of calculations. 



£10 to Dr. C. Bell for further Experiments on Pyrrol. 



