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tions of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, Vols. X, XI, XII, and 

 XIII. 



7. From the Government of Bengal, — Brief Summary of the Meteoro- 

 logy of Bengal, 1880. 



The following Gentlemen, duly proposed by the Council at the last 

 meeting, were ballotted for and elected Honorary Members of the Society : 



1. Dr. William Wright. 



2. Dr. Rudolph v. Roth. 



3. Sir William Thomson. 



4. Prof. Hermann L. F. Helmholtz. 



The following Gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members of the Society : 

 R. Logan, Esq. 

 J. J. Monteath Esq., M. D. 

 The following Gentleman is a candidate for ballot at the next meet- 

 ing : 



Babu Girijabhushana Mukerji, M. A., proposed by Babu Protapa 

 Chandra Ghosha, seconded by J. Wood-Mason, Esq. 



The Secretary reported that the following Gentlemen had intimated 

 their desire to withdraw from the Society : 

 Major M. Protheroe. 

 Herr W. Joest. 

 Munshi Ganga Pershad. 



The following papers were read — 



1. A numerical Estimate of the Species of Animals, chiefly Land and 

 Freshwater, hitherto recotded from British India and its Dependen- 

 cies. — By William T. Blanford, F. R. S. 



(Abstract.) 

 This paper is an attempt to obtain a rough estimate of the number of 

 species belonging to the animal kingdom hitherto recorded in British India 

 and its Dependencies. The marine fauna inhabiting the seas around India 

 being very imperfectly known, Mr. Blanford has confined himself, in all 

 the sub-kingdoms except the Vertebrata, to the land and freshwater fauna 

 alone. Although the data obtained are very imperfect, Mr. Blanford pub- 

 lishes them because they lead to some very curious results. The number 

 of recorded species in each order of the various classes is given, together 

 with the authorities from whom the data have been collected : and from 

 this a final table gi\ing the number of species in each class is compiled. 



