2 Fresenfafions. [Jan. 



Islands, by Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen. — (3) Address before the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science at Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 August 1881, by Col. G. Mallery.— (4) The Hindu and Roman Law of 

 Adoption, by D. M. Gardner. — (5) Report on the Census of the Town 

 and Suburbs of Calcutta, taken on 17th February 1881. Compiled by 

 H. Beverley. 



10. From the Secretary, Clarendon Press, Oxford, — Anecdota Oxonien- 

 sia. Texts, Documents, and Extracts chiefly from MSS. in the Bodleian 

 and other Oxford Libraries. Aryan Series, Vol. I, Ft. I. Buddhist Texts 

 from Japan, by F. Max Miiller. 



11. From the Munich Academy, — (1) Gedachtnisrede auf Leonhard 

 von Spengel, by Wilhelm von Christ. — (2) Die Wittelsbacher in Schweden, 

 by Karl Theodor Heigel. 



12. From the Department of Agriculture, U. S., America, — Annual 

 Report for 1878 and 1879. 



13. From the Smithsonian Institution, — A memorial of Joseph 

 Henry. 



14. From the Boston Society of Natural History, — Anniversary 

 Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1830-1880. 



The following gentleman was balloted for and elected an Ordinary 

 Member: — 



Babu Girijabhusan Mukerji. 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw 

 from the Society : — 



D. M. Gardner, Esq. 

 J. W. Alexander, Esq. 

 H. G. Keene, Esq. 

 Ramesvar Maliah, Esq. 

 Major A. G. Ross. 



The Council announced that Mr. A. Pedler had consented to act as 

 Treasurer during the temporary absence of Mr. J. Eliot. 



The Secretary read a letter from the Under-Secretary to the Govern- 

 ment of Bengal forwarding a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of 

 the Orissa Division, reporting on the origin and growth of the sect of the 

 Hindu Dissenters who profess to be the followers of Alekh. 

 The Commissioner of the Orissa Division writes : — 

 *' 1. The founder of the sect is said to have been one Mukund Das. 



