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and, under any imaginable circumstances, no doubt will still continue 

 to do so. The Council therefore trusts that the Government will see 

 in this suggestion nothing but the indication on their part of what 

 appears to them an equitable and practicable way of making the 

 present arrangements as conducive as possible to the usefulness of 

 the Society, without making any serious or undue claim on the 

 Government. 



6. Should His Excellency the Governor-General in Council be 

 disposed to meet the views that have thus been expressed by the 

 Council, the Council trusts that the Society would ratify an arrange- 

 ment on such a basis. 



I have the honor to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your most obedient Servant, 



"VV. S. Atkinson, 

 Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed at the last meeting were 

 balloted for, and elected ordinary members : 



A. M. Monteath, Esq., C. S. ; Hon'ble T. J. H. Thurlow ; J. Gor- 

 don, Esq., C. S. ; Captain H. Hyde, Bengal Engineers ; Baboo Bhola 

 Nauth Mullick. 



The Hon'ble Major General Sir B. Napier, K. C. B. ; Major Allen 

 Johnson, Bengal Staff Corps. 



The following Gentlemen were named for ballot at the next 

 meeting : — ■ 



H. Beverley, Esq., C. S., proposed by Dr. Duka, seconded by the 

 President. 



Captain J. P. Basevi, Bengal Engineers, proposed by Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Thuillier, seconded by Major Walker. 



J. W. S. Wyllie, Esq., proposed by Mr. Bayley, seconded by the 

 President. 



W. L. Heeley, Esq. C. S., proposed by Mr. Atkinson, seconded by 

 the President. 



Col. Vincent Eyre, proposed by Archdeacon Pratt, seconded by 

 Col. R. Strachey. 



Communications were received — 



1. Frem Rev. A. Brandt through Major Dalton, a copy of a 

 Phonetic table of the Alphabet prepared by a Philologer of Finland, 



