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Alex. Pedler, Esq. 

 Rev. Father E. Lafont. 

 Dr. Mahendralal Sarkar. 



Coin Committee, 

 Hon. J. Gibbs. 

 Major Genl. A. Cunningham. 

 J. H. Rivett-Carnac, Esq. 

 Major W. F. Prideaux. 

 C. J. Rodgers, Esq. 

 V. A. Smith, Esq. 



History and Archj:ology Committee. 

 Hon. J. Gibbs. 



Major General A. Cunningham. 

 R. R. Bayne, Esq. 

 J. Beames, Esq. 

 Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha. 

 F. S. Growse, Esq. 

 Babu Prannatli Pandit, 

 J. H. Rivett-Carnac, Esq, 

 Captain R C. Temple. 

 Amir Ali, Esq. 

 E. F. T. Atkinson, Esq. 



The Secretary read the following circular letter from the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences, Turin, offering for competition the Bressa Prize 

 of the value of 12,000 Italian Lire. 



'* The Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, in accordance with the 

 last will and testament of Dr. Cesare Alessandro Bressa and in con- 

 formity with the Programme published December 7th, 1876, announces 

 that the term for competition for scientific works and discoveries made 

 in the four previous years 1881-84, to which only Italian authors and 

 inventors were entitled, was closed on December 31st, 1884. 



" The Academy now gives notice that from the 1st of January, 1883 

 the new term for competition for the fifth Bressa Prize has begun, to 

 which, according to the testator's will, scientific men and inventors of 

 all nations will be admitted. A prize will therefore be given to the 

 scientific author or inventor, whatever be his nationality, who during 

 the years 1883-86 " according to the judgment of the Royal Academy 

 " of Sciences of Turin, shall have made the most important and useful 

 " discovery, or published the most valuable work on physical and ex- 

 " perimental Science, Natural History, Mathematics, Chemistry, Phy- 



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