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from Jubbulpore announcing the discovery of Celts in the neighbour- 

 hood of the Tonse river. This is believed to have been the first 

 discovery of the kind in India, and gives us a special and local inter- 

 est in questions which have lately been occupying prominent atten- 

 tion in Europe. I am in hopes that the new year will see arrange- 

 ments made by the Council for pursuing enquiries as to what people 

 are likely to have made or used these implements, and as to whether 

 similar traces of human life at a very ancient period may not be 

 forthcoming in other parts of India. 



" I have already proposed to my colleagues on the Council that all 

 advantage should be taken of our position in a country so rich as 

 India is in ethnological materials. We have already the Schlagin- 

 tweit casts and hope to secure a series of the photographic drawings 

 which are now in course of preparation for dispatch to England by 

 order of the different local governments. If we can succeed in collect- 

 ing together the crania of some even of the many races which now 

 exist in India, we shall have the means of assisting largely in 

 researches which have assumed a new importance within the last 

 year or two. 



" Our March meeting was a crowded one. Captain Montgomerie, 

 it will be remembered, on that evening exhibited to us his map of 

 the Jummoo territories, and read his memo, on the progress of the 

 Kashmir series of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, which was 

 afterwards published in our Journal. It has been with the greatest 

 satisfaction that I have observed during the last year or two, the 

 increasing number of recruits which our list of members is receiving 

 from the two great Surveys now in progress in India. I look on 

 their adhesion to our Society as real strength gained, for these new 

 members have the privilege of pursuing as a profession, investigations 

 which enable them to contribute most valuable information to our 

 Journal as well as to our general meetings. 



" On another occasion we had from Captain Pelly an account of his 

 adventurous ride without disguise and without arms from Trebizond 

 to Kurrachee, and in May we listened to an interesting paper by 

 Colonel Yule on some antiquities near Jubbulpore, and to some 

 observations by Professor Oldham on a small but valuable collection 

 of fossils which had been presented to his museum by his Excellency 

 Sir William Denison who was himself present at the meeting. Mr. 



