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The Government of India having intimated their, inability for the 

 present to entertain the proposition, the correspondence on the sub- 

 ject has since been submitted to the Secretary of State for India, and 

 copies have been printed and laid before the members of the Society. 



LlBKARY. 



The Library has received an accession of 345 volumes, among 

 which are some important works on Natural History purchased at 

 the sale of the late Dr. Walker's Library. The Society has regularly 

 received the publications of the different learned and Scientific 

 Institutions with which it is in correspondence, and the purchases 

 include all important Oriental works together with most of the leading 

 scientific and other periodicals of the day. 



Museum. 



Number of visitors from January to Several valuable additions have 



December, 1859, exclusive of Sundays , , . ., _„. 



and other Christian bolidays. been made to tne Museum 



-NTitivP* f Males, 59,123 during the' past year, and it 



natives. "j_ FemaleSj 3)2 88 . , , 



J Males, 2,964 continues to be resorted to 



'• I Females, 1,260 largely by the European and 



Total 66,635 Native community. The average 



number of visitors, as per margin, appears to exceed 185 persons per 



day. 



Dr. Falconer's important Catalogue of Fossil Eemains of Verte- 

 brata from the Sewalik Hills, the Nerbudda, Perim Island, &c, has 

 been completed and copies have been distributed under the orders of 

 the Council. 



Mr. W. Theobald, Junior, has been engaged in arranging the 

 shells in the Society's Cabinet and in compiling a Catalogue for 

 publication ; and Mr. H. F. Blanford has undertaken to arrange and 

 catalogue the Fossil remains in the Society's collection which are not 

 included in Dr. Falconer's work. 



JOUENAL. 



Four Nos. of the Journal have been published during the year and 

 a fifth is in the Press. 



The Council are gratified to notice that the contributions received 

 have been of more than usual interest and importance, and they trust 

 that with the restoration of peace the cause of Literature and 



