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The following gentlemen were named for ballot as ordinary mem- 
bers at the next meeting :— 
W. Clementson, Esq., Executive Engineer, Bassein, proposed by 
Mr. Theobald, and seconded by Mr. Atkinson. 
Colonel Hamilton, Commissioner of Delhi, proposed by Mr. Cooper, 
and seconded by Mr. Grote. 
Captain G. C. Depree, Royal Artillery, proposed by Lieutenant- 
Colonel Dalton and seconded by Mr. Atkinson. 
T. D. Forsyth, Esq., C. B., Commissioner of Lahore, proposed by 
Colonel Maclagan, and seconded by the President. 
Baboo Chundersekur Roy, of Julpigorie, proposed by Baboo 
Rajendra Lal Mitra, and seconded by Mr. Grote. 
T. H. Thornton, Esq., C. S., proposed by Mr. Bayley, and second- 
ed by Mr. Grote. 
How’ble G. Campbell, proposed by Mr. E. C. Bayley and seconded 
by Mr. Grote. 
Mr. Oldham gave notice that he would move at the next meeting — 
1. That he would call the attention of the Society to the careless 
and discreditable manner in which the Journal of the Society is at 
present conducted, as calculated to reflect very serious disgrace on 
the Society ; and to the unreasonable delays which occur in the issue 
of the several numbers, by which much of their contents is rendered 
obsolete and comparatively useless. 
2. That inasmuch as no improvement in the Museum of the 
Society is visible, the Council be requested to state in detail the 
steps which have been taken for the proper disposal of the sum of 
Rs. 200 per mensem granted by the Government for the improvement 
and support of the Natural History Museum of the Society, which 
sum the Society has received since April, 1862. 
Captain Lees gave notice that at the same meeting he would 
move— 
That Bye-Law 77 of the Society be amended as follows :— 
The Council shall elect from their own body Sub-committees or 
sections of Oriental literature, Natural History, &c., also a Sub-com- 
mittee of Finance, whose reports on all matters referred to them 
shall be submitted to the Council. 
Communications were received— 
J. From the Secretary, Government of India, Public Works De- 
He Ves 
