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the actual discharge producing damage, or who may have suffered in any 

 way from its effects. 



6. The existence or non-existence of a lightning-rod in any form in 

 the immediate neighbourhood of the accidents, and an exact description 

 of the rod when any such appendage has been ascertained to be near, 

 especially as to — 



(a) the nature of the metal of which the rod is composed : 

 (h) the size of the rod : 



{c) the character of the conductor, whethea: it has the form of a solid 

 cylinder, of a tube, of a flat strip, of a chain, or of a wirerope : 



(d) the actual continuity of the conductor from end to end : 



(e) the character of the termination above, and the distance to which 



it extends there beyond any building or solid structure : 



(f) the character of the termination below, whether in dry or moist 



ground, how it runs into the ground, and how the earth- con- 

 tact is ultimately made : 

 (y) the manner in which the conductor is connected with any build- 

 ing, and especially whether there are any masses of metal in the 

 building near, and whether such masses are or are not placed in 

 metallic communication with the conductor. 



7. Allusion to the fact whether the injurious discharge did or did not 

 form part of an ordinary thunder-storm in progress at the time. 



8. In case of the occurrence of a thunder-storm in progress at the 

 time of the discharge, a description of the character of the storm as to 

 intensity, duration, fall of rain, and apparent movement over the locality. 



9. Any subsidiary or incidental observations that may have been made 

 and that may seem to bear practically upon the physical conditions and 

 circumstances of the phenomenon. 



Messrs. H. F. Blanford and Eliot have expressed their readiness to 

 investigate, when practicable, cases of accidents from lightning occurring in 

 Calcutta, and information on cases occurring there or in other parts of India 

 may be sent to them at the Meteorological Office, Calcutta, or to Mr. W. 

 McGregor, Eiver View, Dhubri, Assam. 



The Chaieman announced that Mr. J. C. Douglas had been appointed 

 a Member of the Physical Science Committee, Mr. H. B. Medlicott of the 

 Library Committee, and Mr. W. T. Blanford of the Finance Committee. 



Also that on the recommendation of the Library Committee, the 

 Council had passed an order that not more than two MSS. should be lent 

 out at a time to the same person, except with the sanction of the Council. 



Also that on the recommendation of the Natural History Committee, the 

 Council had sanctioned the publication of Mr. Moore's Descriptions of the 



