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record of their Society. It was obvious that the history of the ancient 
remains scattered over this Presidency could not be in better hands. 
He proposed that the special thanks of the meeting be conveyed to 
the Government for communicating these reports, accompanied by an 
intimation of the very high value which the Society places on Major 
General Cunningham’s researches. 
The President announced that on the application of the Director of 
Public Instruction, the Council had granted the use of the meeting- 
room for a course of geological lectures to be delivered by Mr. H. F. 
Blanford, and had also permitted the use of such rock specimens and 
fossils from the Society’s collections as might be required to illustrate 
the lectures. 
For Aprin, 1863. 
The monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 
was held on the 1st instant. 
Lieutenant-Colonel H. L. Thuillier, President, in the chair. 
The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Presentations were received— 
1. From Major J. T. Walker, a set of photographs of views in 
Kashmir, prepared by Captain Melville. 
2. From Captain Melville, a set of photographs, illustrating the 
hill tribes on the Peshawur frontier. 
3. From the Assistant General Superintendent, North-Western 
Provinces and Oudh, a parcel containing Dhatoora Stramonium in its 
different forms, as used by the poisoners of Upper India. 
4, From A. Grote, Esq., a copy of the first annual report of the 
Acclimatisation Society of Victoria. 
5. From the same, a centipede (Scolopendra morsitans). 
6. From the Assistant Secretary, Government of India, a copy of 
the Surveyor General’s Report for 1858-59, 1859-60, 1860-61. 
7. From Major C. L. Showers, a copy of his letter to Thomas 
Bazley, Esq., M. P., on the cotton question. 
8. From Mr. N. S, Maskelyne, a copy of his paper on the fall 
of Indian Aerolites, published in the JERE No. of the London 
and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine. 
9. From the Vienna Museum, through Mr, Oldham, a box of 
meteorites. 
