152 Photographs of Fuegans exhibited. [Nov. 



University of Berlin, for their numerous and important contributions to 

 Science, both theoretical and practical. 



The Council also recommended that the remaining vacancy be left 

 unfilled for the present. 



The Council reported that the bust of the late Mr. Henry Blochmann 

 had been received, and that a suitable pedestal had been ordered for it. 



The Secretary announced that the following works had been sanc- 

 tioned for publication in the Bibliotheca Indica, on the recommendation of 

 the Philological Committee : — 



The text of the Lamiyyet-el-Arab, accompanied by two translations, 

 one in prose and the other in verse, by C. J. Lyall, B. A., C. S. 



A translation of the 2nd Volume of Abd-ul-Kadir's Muntakhab-ul- 

 Tawarikh, by Rev. W. H. Lowe, M. A. 



The Council reported that Mr. V. Ball had tendered his resignation 

 as Honorary (Natural History) Secretary and Treasurer, on his departure 

 for England, and that Mr. Wood-Mason had resumed the Natural History 

 Secretaryship and Mr. J. Eliot had consented to act as Treasurer. 



The Council recommended that, in consideration of Mr. Bali's long 

 services to the Society, and his numerous and valuable contributions to 

 Indian Science, he be presented with the Society's publications gratuitously 

 for the rest of his life. 



This was unanimously agreed to. 



The Secretary read a letter from Col. J. F. Tennant, F. R. S., dated 

 21st October, forwarding four photographs of the Tierra del Fuego savages 

 at the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, together with a short account of them in 

 French. Owing to a famine which last year depopulated Tierra del Fuego, 

 these savages were compelled to beg for food from the Captain of a German 

 vessel, and were induced by the promise of a plentiful supply of provisions 

 to allow themselves to be brought to Europe. Although belonging to tha 

 most degraded and ferocious of savage races, under kindly treatment they 

 have become fairly docile, and by appealing to their love of imitation have 

 been induced to adopt various civilized habits. For example, although the 

 instinct of modesty is dormant within them, they have become particular 

 about their clothes, through noticing that all the visitors to the Jardin 

 d'Acclimatation are scrupulously covered from the neck to the feet. The 

 photographs exhibited were obtained by first photographing some employes 

 of the Garden, and thus inducing them out of a love of imitation to submit 

 to the same process. So also, after some of the employes had been vacci- 

 nated in their presence, they complacently submitted to the same operation. 



