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The Chaiemaist announced that, in accordance with the notice given 

 at the March Meeting, the votes would be taken whether the following 

 rider to Kule 64 should be added to the Rules of the Society. 



Before circulating any question coming under clause (c) . of Btde 64 

 for the votes of tlie general hody of members of the Society, the Council 

 shall cause to be sent to every resident member, at least 48 hours before the 

 General Meeting at which such question is to be ]^roposed, a 'printed circu- 

 lar in which shall be set forth the nature of the proposal and the reasons for 

 it, in order that it may be duly discussed at such General Meeting, A 

 statement of any objections that may be raised at the Meeting against the 

 proposal shall also be circulated ivith the voting papers. 



Mr. Waldie and Major Godwin- Austen were appointed Scrutineers and 

 reported that there were 62 votes for the addition and 2 against it. The 

 Chaikman thereupon announced that the proposed Eule had been carried. 



The CHAiRMAisr announced that Col. J. F. Tennant had been appointed 

 a Member of Council in the place of Dr. D. B. Smith. 



The Secretart read extracts from a letter from Dr. Dobson stating 

 that Mr. Geflowski was about to commence work upon the bust of Dr. Old- 

 ham, and that the marble bust of Dr. Stoliczka by the same sculptor was also 

 in progress and nearly finished. 



Mr. W. T. Blaistoed called attention to some recent researches by 

 Prof. Jeitteles, of Vienna, on the origin of the domestic dog, researches 

 which have a peculiar interest in India, because in Professor Jeitteles' 

 opinion two common Indian animals are amongst the most impoi*tant wild 

 species from which the various forms of domestic dog are descended. 

 Other authors have already concluded that several wild forms of wolves 

 and jackals have been tamed by man in various parts of the world and 

 that different races of dogs have thus originated, many of the races 

 having of course undergone great modification through the process of 

 artificial selection by man and from other causes. Most of the details 

 known before 1868 were given by Darwin in his work on ' Domesticated 

 Plants and Animals' and the conclusions at which he arrived, that domestic 

 dogs are derived from several different wild species, appear to be confirmed 

 by Prof. Jeitteles, although the researches of the latter have shewn that some 

 forms formerly supposed to have contributed to the ancestry of domestic 

 dogs must be omitted from amongst the races from which various kinds 

 of dogs are derived and others previously unsuspected must be included. 



Professor Jeitteles' first contribution to this very interesting question 

 appears to have been the examination and comparison of dogs' skulls found 

 with human remains of the stone age. An animal had already been de- 



