54 Annual Eeport, [Feb. 



The Natural History Secretary reported, with reference to Mr. Grote's 

 proposal for the publication of a portion of the late Mr. Atkinson's collec- 

 tion of Lepidoptera, that the following Resolution had been passed by the 

 Natural History Committee : 



" The Natural History Committee are unanimously of opinion, that is 

 desirable, if practicable, that Mr. F. Moore's descriptions of the new species 

 of moths from the collection of the late Mr. Atkinson should be published 

 by the Society, but they do not consider it necessary that the whole should 

 be printed in one piece, and brought out in England, as an extra number 

 of the Journal. They recommend that the work be published in sections 

 as the Society's funds may permit, either as a series of papers to be com- 

 municated in the usual way to the Journal, or as separate fasciculi of a 

 new series of the " Asiatic Kesearches" in quarto form. 



The Council agreed to publish the descriptions as a separate work in 

 quarto form in numbers as their funds permitted. The printing to be 

 done, in Calcutta, and proofs sent to Mr. Moore. The plates to be done 

 m England. The question of commencing a new series of the Asiatic Re- 

 searches to be referred to the Council at large for consideration. 



June 28th. Ordinary Meeting. 



At this Meeting the question of the erection of a Railing was again 

 deferred, till the ground had been marked out and a definite proposal 

 brought forward by the Municipality. 



The Secretary reported that steps had been taken to have the Society's 

 landed property duly registered and to obtain a dispensation freeing suc- 

 cessive Secretaries of the Society from the necessity of registering them- 

 selves on behalf of the Society. 



The Minutes of the Council on the question of recommencing a new 

 series of the " Asiatic Researches/' were read, and the following order 

 passed : — That the new series of the ** Asiatic Researches" be commenced, 

 the size of the Philosophical Transactions. The quarto to be the same as 

 the Philosophical Transactions, and 300 copies to be printed. £50 to be 

 remitted to Mr. Grote. 



The Natural History Secretary reported that the Sub-Committee for 

 Deep- Sea Dredging, had recommended that application be made to 

 Government for copies of all the Admiralty papers and publications relating 

 to the equipment and fittings of the " Challenger," and for specimens of 

 the apparatus to serve as models. The recommendation was approved. 



The Secretary suggested that steps should be taken to secure the sub- 

 mission of papers before the General Meeting. 



It was ordered that a notice should be printed on the cover of the 

 Proceedings, that to ensure the reading of papers at the Monthly meeting 



