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The Committee would wish it to be understood that the Board, the 

 constitution of which they suggest, should have no power whatever 

 excepting to offer its opinions on the subjects to which allusion has 

 been made in this Report and perhaps on other kindred matters of 

 science. It is not, however, for the Committee to offer any decided 

 opinion as to any thing beyond the meteorological aspect of the 

 questions. The Board would of course be purely honorary. It does 

 not appear essential that all of its members should be residents in 

 Calcutta or even in this Presidency. 



The Committee have no doubt that if such a Board were constituted 

 from the leading men of science in India, its recommendations would 

 be received with thankfulness by the Government, and by all indivi- 

 dual observers, and that such recommendations would practically carry 

 with them sufficient weight to give that spirit of unity and method 

 to all meteorological observations which is so entirely wanting at 

 present, and which is so essential to any real progress in the science 

 and its practical application. 



Some remarks were made by Colonel Thuillier, on the subject of 

 the recommendation which the Council proposed to submit to Go- 

 vernment, and after a discussion in which Col. Strachey, Mr. Old- 

 ham, Col. Douglas, Mr. W. T. Blanford and other members joined, 

 it was resolved that the Council be empowered to address Govern- 

 ment in furthrance of the general objects advocated in the Report; 

 but instead of a Board of visitors of the Calcutta Observatory, to 

 recommend the appointment of a meteorological Committee, for the 

 purpose of making suggestions on the best practical way of promot- 

 ing those subjects. 



The following report of the Phil, Committee was recommended 

 by the Council and adopted. 



REPORT. 



The Philological Committee recommended to the Council that 

 Pundit Nabadwip Chunder Goswami's offer be accepted to edit the 

 prose Sankara-dig-Vijaya of Anantananda Giri. The Society, last 

 year, accepted a proposal to edit the poetic version by Madhava, as it 

 seemed at that time hopeless to obtain MSS. of the prose work, 

 but the Secretary has lately obtained several MSS. through Dr. Hall 

 and pundit Lingam Laksmoji of Vijayanagaram, and the printing of 

 Madhava's work, which had just commenced, has been stopped ; and 



