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absent member or members with reference to the subject under con- 

 sideration, and with the request that any reply to such communication 

 be addressed, under a sealed and registered cover marked "confidential," 

 to the Natural History Secretary, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 57, Park 

 Street, Calcutta. 



7. Having received the instructions of the Council the Committee 

 will fix a date for a second meeting to be held on the first convenient 

 day subsequent to the first Wednesday of January, but before the 

 Thursday preceding the first Wednesday of February. In any communi- 

 cation addressed to an absent member of the Committee, the date of this 

 second meeting will be announced. 



8. At this second meeting of the Committee the Chairman will 

 read to the other members present any communications received from 

 members unable to be present, and the Committee will finally decide on 

 the names to be submitted to the Council ; in each case a brief state- 

 ment of the meritorious work on which the recommendation is based will 

 be appended. 



9. The names recommended, together with these notes, will be 

 placed in a sealed cover to be left in the custody of the Chairman of 

 the Committee, in order that it may be handed by him to the President 

 of the Society or such other officer as may act as Chairman at the 

 Meeting of Council of the Asiatic Society, held on the Thursday pre- 

 ceding the Anniversary Meeting of the Society. 



10. At the Council Meeting held on the Thursday preceding the 

 Anniversary Meeting, the Members of Council present will select from 

 among the names recommended by the Barclay Medal Committee, the 

 name that it considers most worthy of the Medal. 



The President announced that Dr. T. Bloch, had been appointed 

 Philological Secretary of the Society in the place of Dr. G. Ranking, 

 resigned. 



Mr. R. D. Oldham, Officiating Director of the Geological Survey of 

 India, exhibited and described an important collection of rude stone 

 implements from Central India. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Three further collections of ancient manuscripts from Central 

 Asia. — By A. F. Rudolf Hoernle, Ph.D., C.I.E. 



The paper will be published in the Journal, Part I. 



2. On new or little-Jcnoivn Butterflies from the Indo and Austro- 

 Malayan Uegion. — By Lionel de Nic^v^illb, F. E. S., C.M.Z.S. 



The paper will be published in the Journal. Part II. 



