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fresh when first remarked by myself, and evidently killed at or about the 

 same time. None of them exhibited any signs of mutilation. They 

 rather resembled the Grey MuUett in appearance, and averaged from 9 to 

 15 inches in length. They were floating generally at a distance of only a 

 yard or two from each other, and extended over a field of some 200 miles 

 east and west, the course we were steering at the time. No unusual 

 appearances were remarked, except perhaps a little more than the average 

 amount of phosphorescent light in the water at night. The weather was 

 calm, and the Barometer and Thermometer about theii' average height for 

 the season of the year. My impression at the time was, that the fish 

 were killed by some volcanic or electrical agency, but this is pure conjecture 

 on my part, as I have no grounds upon which to fomid the supposition 

 except the absence of any external injuries sufiicient to cause death in such 

 specimens as I secured for examination.' 



Mr. Wood-Mason mentioned the destruction of vast shoals of fishes by 

 heavy gales in the Bay of Fundy recorded by Dr. Leith Adams, and alluded 

 to the influence of volcanic sub -marine emanations on animal hfe. 



The President repoi'ted on the part of the Coimcil that the following 

 gentlemen have been elected to serve on the several Committees of the 

 Society — 



rrN'A:N'CE. 

 Babu Rajendralala Mitra. 

 Col. A. S. Allan. 

 L. Schwendler, Esq. 



F. W. Peterson, Esq. 



Library. 

 The Hon'ble J. B. Phear. 

 Babii Rajendralala Mitra. 

 Col. A. S. Allan. 

 . Col. H. Hyde, R. E. 

 W. L. Heeley, Esq., C. S. 

 Dr. J. Anderson. 

 J. Wood-Mason, Esq. 



G. Nevill, Esq. 



Dr. Mohindralala Sarkara. 



Philology. 

 E. C. Bayley, Esq., C. S., C. S. I. 

 Babu Rajendralala Mitra. 

 W. L. Heeley, Esq., C. S. 

 C. H. Tawney, Esq., M. A. 

 Major-General A. Cunningham, C. S. I, 



