202 Oeograpliical Congress at Faris for 1875. [Nov. 



The followin<^ iji-entlemen duly proposed and seconded at the last meet- 

 ing were elected Ordinary Members — 

 A. Constable, Esq. 

 K. Knight, Esq., Calcutta, 

 Babu Bhugobutty Churn Mallik. 



The following gentlemen are candidates for ballot at the next meeting — 



Maulavvi Khuda Bakhsli Khan Sahib, Pleader, Bankipore, Patna, pro- 

 posed by Mr. H. Blochmann, seconded by Col. H. Hyde. 



Babu Earn Das Sen, Zamindar, Berhampore, proposed by Col. H. Hyde, 

 seconded by Mr, H. Blochmann. 



Captain Protheroe, T)y. Commissioner, Port Blair and Nicobar Islands, 

 proposed by Mr. J. Wood-Mason, seconded by Dr. T. R. Lewis. 



E. E. Egerton, Esq., Financial Commissioner, Panjab, proposed by 

 Major-General E. Maclagan, seconded by the Hon'ble E. C. Bayley. 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw from 

 the Society — 



Captain E. Swetenham ; F. E. Mallet, Esq. 



The President then announced to the meeting that a Geographical 

 Congress would be held in Paris in spring 1875. 



He said that he had received a letter from the French Consul General, 

 Calcutta, forwarding a prospectus by the promoters of the Congress together 

 with a collection of 123 geographical questions upon which information was 

 specially solicited. He had ordered a copy of these questions to be kept in 

 the office, should any member wish to see them, and he would now read out 

 the letters. As the Committee of the Congress desired to have the address- 

 es of gentlemen likely to take an interest in the scheme, the Council had 

 proposed the following names — Col. H. Hyde, E. E,, President, Asiatic 

 Society ; Col. H. L. Thuillier, C. S. I., Surveyor General of India ; Col. J. 

 T. Walker, E. E., Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey ; 

 Col. J, E. Gastrell, Superintendent Eevenue Survey ; W. T. Blanford, Esq., 

 Geological Survey ; Captain J. Butler, Political Agent, Naga Hills ; Col. 

 E. T. Dalton, C. S. I., Commissioner of Chota Nagpore ; J. W. Edgar, 

 Esq., Dy. Commissioner of Darjeeling ; Sir T. D. Forsyth, K. C. S. I., C. 

 B, ; W. Heeley, Esq., C. S. ; Captain W. G. Hughes, Dy. Commissioner, 

 Hill Tracts, Arakan ; Dr. W. W. Hunter, Director-General of Statistics ; 

 Dr. J. King, Superintendent, Botanical Gardens, Calcutta ; S, Kurz, Esq., 

 Curator, Herbarium, Calcutta ; Lieut.-Col. W. E. Marshall, Simla ; S. E. 

 Peal, Esq., Seebsagar, Assam; The Hon'ble Justice J. B. Phear, Calcutta; 

 Babu Eajendralala Mitra, Calcutta; Dr. D. Brandis, Inspector General 



