1874.] Mr. BurneJl on Copying Inscri]jtions. 125 



4. From Sayyid Karamat 'All, a copy of Kitab u ugul ilalsanah wal- 

 lughat, and a little MS. containing two short treatises in Persian on the 

 Lawfulness of Food, and on Muhavram ceremonies. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed and seconded at the last, 

 meeting were balloted for and elected ordinary members — 



Saj'-yid Amir Ali, Esq., Barrister at Law, Calcutta. 



v/a. C. Smith, Esq., C. S., Azimghur. 



The following are candidates for ballot at the next meeting — 



D. M. Gardner, Esq., C. S. (for re-election), proposed by Mr. A. C. 

 Lyall, seconded hy Captain J. Waterhouse. 



Dr. J. Scully, Medical Officer, Kashgar Political Agency, proposed 

 by Dr. V. Eichards, seconded by Mr. J. Wood-Mason. 



Captain S. H. Cowan, B. S. C, Revenue Survey Department, proposed 

 by Captain J. Waterhouse, seconded by Mr. J. Wood-Mason. 



Captain T. B. Michell, B. S. C, Assistant Commissioner, Gowhatty, 

 proposed by Captain J. Butler, seconded by Mr. J. Wood-Mason. 



Dr. George Watt, Hughli College, proposed by Mr. J. Wood-Mason, 

 seconded by Captain J. Waterhouse. 



W. G. Molesworth, Esq., C. E., proposed by Mr, E. Gay, seconded by 

 Mr. J. Wood-Mason. 



Captain T. Deane, Adjutant Viceroy's Body-Guard, proposed by Colonel 

 Hyde, seconded by Captain Waterhouse. 



Colonel H. Drummond, R. E., proposed by Colonel H3^de, seconded by 

 Mr. Schwendler. 



Major H. A. Mallock, Government Telegraph Department, proposed 

 by Colonel Hyde, seconded by Mr. Schwendler. 



The President reported that the Council recommended that the Rev. 

 Fr. E. Lafont, Colonel D. G. Robinson and Messrs. J, O'Kinealy and V. 

 Ball be elected members of the Physical Science Committee. 



The Secretary read the following extract from Mr. Burnell's pamphlet 

 on the best way of making and utilizing copies of Indian Inscriptions, 

 forwarded for the information of the Society by the Government of Madras. 



" The first question is, how to make the copies ? Many ways have been 

 tried: rubbings by heelball on paper, impressions on linen made by a pad 

 daubed with printing ink, sketch drawings, photographs, etc , etc. Con- 

 siderable experience* and a number of experiments have convinced me that 



* Cf, Also the remarks of Prinsep and Mill, and recently of Dr. Bliau Daji, as to 

 the great alterations in the translations required by improved transcripts of inscriptions 

 long known and published. The great objection to photography as a means of re-pro- 

 ducing inscriptions consists in the imperfections of the paper used and the difficulty 

 (or impossibility) of managing the light. 



