lOS Letter from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. [June, 



The following gentleman is a candidate for election at the next meet- 

 ing : 



Kumar Isvariprasad Garga, zemindar of Maisadal, proposed by Babu 

 G. D. Bjsack, seconded by Dr. H. W. M'Cann. 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw from 

 the Society : 



G. Nevill, Esq. 



G. L. Molesworth, Esq. 



H. H. Nawab Siddeek Hassan, Khan Bahadur. 



The Council reported that Babu P. N. Bose, B. Sc, F. G. S., had 

 been elected Member of Council and Natural History Secretary, subject 

 to the approval of the meeting. 



The election was confirmed. 



The Council reported that Mr. E. S. Andrews and Babu Mohendra 

 Chunder Mukerji had resigned their posts of Assistant Librarian and 

 Copyist respectively, and that Mr. A. S. Tiery and Babu Amrita Lai Das 

 had been appointed to these posts, subject to the confirmation of the meeting. 



The appointments were confirmed. 



The Secretary read the following letter from H. E. Count Melchior 

 de Lonj'ay, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, thanking 

 the Council for having presented the Academy with three original letters of 

 Csoma de Koros, the famous Hungarian scholar and traveller. These 

 letters had been presented to the Hungarian Academy at the suggestion of 

 Dr. T. Duka: 



*' I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated Calcutta, March 

 6th, including the three original letters of Csoma de Koros which the 

 Council of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was kind enough to present to the 

 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, over which I have the honour to preside. 



" It was a happy idea on the part of Dr. Duka, our fellow- member, to 

 suggest the presentation of these letters, and the willingness with which 

 tlie Council of your Society has effected this desire of our learned fellow 

 has most agreeably surprised us. It is with the most sincerely felt gratitude 

 that we accept these highly valued memorials of our great countryman, and 

 the gift, so complimentary to the donors, will not only be a treasure to the 

 archives of our Academy, but it will be guarded like a national relic, as 

 a test of piety and veneration, felt by every Hungarian for Csoma de 

 Koros, whose wonderful achievements in Science have become legendary 

 amongst us. 



'' I beg leave to ask you. Dear Sir, to present the thanks of the Hunga- 

 rian Academy to the Council of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, to that 



