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A. M. Monteath, Esq., C. S., proposed .by Archdeacon Pratt, 

 seconded by Mr. E. C. Bayley. 



Captain Hyde, Bengal Engineers, proposed by Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Thuillier, seconded by Major J. E. Gastrell. 



Baboo Bhola Nauth Mullick, proposed by Moulavi Abdul Luteef 

 Khan Bahahur, seconded by Mr. Atkinson. 



The Hon'ble Major General Sir Bobert Napier, K. C. B., proposed 

 by Lieut. -Colonel Thuillier, seconded by the President. 



Major Allen Johnson, Bengal Staff Corps, proposed by Lieut.- 

 Colonel Thuillier, seconded by Mr. Atkinson. 



Mr. "W. Theobald, Junior, exhibited some celts which he had found 

 in Bundlekund, and some chert implements from the Anclamans, and 

 read the following note on the subject : — 



During the past cold season I had the opportunity of examining a 

 portion of the country in which Mr. Le Mesurier first discovered 

 celts (vide J. A. S. No. I. of 1861) and I was so fortunate as not only 

 to collect a fair series of these weapons, bi;t also to ascertain their 

 extension upwards of 200 miles East of the Tons River which Mr. Le 

 Mesurier in his Memoir considered as their boundary in that quarter. 

 In other directions I had not the opportunity of tracing them, but 

 that their range extends over a much larger area than is at present 

 assigned them in Bundlekund is almost a certainty. Of the most 

 marked varieties of these implements I shall give a short description, 

 that any one so minded may satisfy himself of the precise identity 

 of these celts with those found in Europe, in confirmation of which 

 I may quote Mr. Oldham, whose acquaintance with stone weapons from 

 Irish and European localities, is very extensive. There is something, 

 however, very peculiar in the mode of occurrence of these weapons, 

 which must be cleared up hereafter, for though they may be traced as 

 far into Behar as I have stated above, it is only west of the Tons that 

 they are plentiful; for (rejecting a dubious case) I have not as yet 

 obtained a single perfect one east of that river. The most natural 

 explanation of this appears to be some superstition which induced 

 men of old time to collect these relics of a still older age and convey 

 them to the shrines and localities where they are now so abundant, 

 so that celts collected over thousands of square miles are now ac- 

 cumulated about Karoi (Tirhowan or Kirwee) and its environs. This 

 is of course a mere hypothesis, but agrees well with the scarcity of 



