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The MontHy Greneral Meeting of the Society was held on Wed- 

 nesday, the 3rd August, 1904, at 9-15 p.m. 



The Hon. Mr. Justice F. E. Pargiter, B.A., I.C.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



The following members were present : — 



Mr. J. Bathgate, Mr. I. H. Burkill, Mr. T. H. Holland, Mr. 

 D. Hooper, Mr. T. D. La Touche, Mr. H. H. Mann, Mr. C. Michie, 

 Mr. C. S. Middlemiss, Mr. G. E. Pilgrim, Major D. Prain, I.M.S., 

 Captain L. Rogers, I.M.S., Pandit Yogesa Chandra Sastree, Mr. C H. 

 Tipper, Pandit Satis Chandra Yidyabhusana, Mr. E. Yredenburg, 

 Mr. J. Wjness. 



Visitors : — Mr. N. Annandale, Mr. L. L. Termor, and Mr. J. 

 McNeil. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Forty-eight presentations were announced : — 



Mr. D. B. Parasnis, Major W. J. Bythell, R.E. and Mr. L. Leigh 

 Termor were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members. 



It was announced that Mr. E. V. Gabriel has expressed a wish to 

 withdraw from the Society. 



The President announced that Mr. R. O. Lees had been elected 

 a member of the Council in the place of Mr. C. R. Wilson, resigned. 



Mr. E. Yredenburg exhibited specimens of fossil oysters and other 

 marine shells obtained from excavations in Clive Street, Calcutta. 



Mr. G-. E. Pilgrim exhibited specimens of Pleistocene fossil bones 

 obtained at about 80 feet below the Ganges river at Allahabad. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. The Later Mughals /" 1707- 1803). —By William Irvine, I.C.S., 

 (retired ) . 



(Abstract.) 



This paper is a continuation of Mr. Irvine's articles on the Later 

 Moghuls. It narrates the events during the short reigns of Rafia-d- 

 Darajat and Rafia-d-Daulah, who were set up as puppet kings in 1719 

 A.D. by the Sayyids after the assassination of Earrukhsiyar. The 



