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Mection of Officers. 



[Feb. 



before the meeting, and to an objection raised by Dr. Waldie, to tbe officers 

 b^ing elected collectively, as usual, and not in due sequence, as laid down in 

 rule 44. The Scrutineers finally reported the result of the election as 

 follows : — 



] 



Secretaries. 



Treasurer. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq., F. E. S., President. 



Dr. Eajendralala Mitra, Eai Bahadur, C. I. E., 



H. B. Medlicott, Esq., )■ Vice-Presidents. 



T. S. Isaac, Esq., 



H. Blochmann, Esq., M. A., 



Capt. J. Waterhouse, 



R. Lydekker, Esq., 



E. Gay, Esq., 



W. T. Blanford, Esq., F. E. S., 



Dr. Eajendralala Mitra, Eai Bahadur, C. I. E., 



H. B. Medlicott, Esq., M. A., 



T. S. Isaac, Esq., 



H. Blochmann, Esq., M. A., 



Capt. J. Waterhouse, 



Dr. T. E. Lewis, 



J. O'Kinealy, Esq., C. S., 



Babu Prannath Pandit, 



Dr. J. Anderson, 



E. Lydekker, Esq., 



Col. J. T. Walker, C. B., E. E., F. E. S., 



H. F. Blanford, Esq., 



E. Gay, Esq., M. A., 



A. W. Croft, Esq., M. A. 



Messrs. D. Waldie and J. Blackburn, were elected to audit the Annual 

 Accounts. 



' Memhers of Council. 



The Peesldent said — That he regretted that his approaching depar- 

 ture from India and the pressure of business which it involved, prevented 

 him from preparing any address on the occurrences of the past, such as was 

 sometimes laid before them. So far as the affairs of the Society were con- 

 cerned he could only refer the meeting to the report which had just been 

 read and which he thought he might justly call satisfactory. His duty 

 was now to vacate the chair in favour of Mr. Blanford. In doing so, he 

 begged to express to the Society his sense of the high honor which they 

 had done him in so often more than once electing him to office as Presi- 

 dent and as a Member of their Council. The duties of those offices he had 



