38 Annual Heport. [Feb., 



so as to qualify Honorar}- and Associate Members for serving on the various 

 Committees appointed by the Council. The proposal was approved, and 

 the Secretary was requested to take the necessary measures to obtain the 

 votes of the Society on the proposed change. 



The Secretary reported that two Honorary Members, viz., Mr. Chas. 

 Darwin and Dr. J. Muir, had died during the year, and these deaths with 

 a previous vacancy made three vacancies in the list of Honorary Members. 

 The Natural History Committee was requested to make two nominations, 

 and the Philological Committee one, to fill these vacancies. 

 28th December. Ordinary Meeting. 



Parts III-V of Moore's Lepidoptera of Ceylon, presented by the Colo- 

 nial Secretary, Colombo, were accepted with thanks, 



A suggestion of Mr. H. Kivett-Carnac's that when finds of coins, <fec., 

 are recorded in the Society's Proceedings the name of the district and 

 province should always be mentioned in addition to the name of the place 

 where the coins &c. were found, was ordered to be circulated to the Secre* 

 taries for information. 



On the recommendation of the Natural History Secretary, permission 

 was granted to Lieut -Col. H. H. Godwin- Austen to use again in his work 

 on the " Indian Land a^id Fresh Water Mollusca" the plates of the ani- 

 mals of certain species and genera copied from Ferd. Stoliczka's drawings. 



It was resolved that Mr. C. J. Rodgers should be proposed for election 

 as an Associate Member. 



A letter of explanation and apology from Mr. P. C. Wheeler was read 

 and an order was passed that Mr. Wheeler should be informed that the 

 Council accept his explanation, and, inferring from his letter that he is 

 now willing to pay the full sum due, desist from any further proceeding 

 in the matter until he has had an opportunity of paying : in the event of 

 his doing so, that he will be allowed to retire from the Society in the 

 usual way. It was ordered that an announcement to this effect should be 

 made to the Society at its next meeting. 



A vote of thanks was passed to the Tumlook Public Library Commit- 

 tee for the presentation to the Society of the greater part of the collection 

 of coins belonging to that institution. 



The consideration of a proposal made by the Secretary that lectures 

 should be given in connection with the Society, as was done in the cold 

 season of 1873-74, was deferred to the next meeting. 



A Committee was appointed consisting of Messrs. H. B. Me^licott, 

 J. Westland, A. W. Croft, H. F. Blanford, Major J. Waterhouse and 

 Nawab Abdul Latif Khan Bahadur (with power to add to their number) 

 to make preparations for the proper celebration of the Centenary of the 

 Society during the next cold season. 



