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ties and the leading Orientalists of Europe, Oriental science would be 
benefited, and the original object of government in printing the books 
forwarded. 
A large portion of the edition of the Rigveda, commenced by the 
late Court of Directors, and continued by Her Majesty’s Government, 
has been gratuitously distributed in this manner. 
The Philological Committee would therefore suggest that a propo- 
sition should be made to Government for the distribution of fifty or 
eighty copies, and the Society might offer to send the books to their 
respective destinations along with its own publications, government 
paying any extra expence. 
The report was adopted. 
Communications were received. 
1. From Dr. C. Williams, extracts from a journal of his trip from 
Mandelay to Bhamoo, containing some accounts of a visit to old 
Pagan. 
The paper was read by the Secretary. 
After its perusal the chairman observed that he was in hopes of 
receiving further communications shortly from Dr. Williams through 
Colonel Phayre. The Doctor had reported the Bhamoo river to be 
navigable for steamers up to Bhamoo, He had not found it practi- 
cable, in consequence of the disturbances in Yunan, to reach the 
Chinese frontier, but he had travelled in that direction as far as the 
Kakhyan mountains. 
2. From the Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal, copy 
of a journal kept by Mr. J. W. Masters, late Assistant Commissioner 
at Golaghat, during a tour made by him towards the end of last year 
in Upper Assam. 
3. From Baboo Gopinauth Sen an abstract of the hourly meteoro- 
logical observations taken at the Surveyor General’s Office in April 
last. 
The chairman then addressed the meeting, calling its attention to 
the intelligence which had just reached India of the successful issue 
of Captains Speke and Grant’s expedition, in Hastern Africa. 
Some of the members present, he observed, might probably have 
known these officers who were both placed by the Home Government 
at the disposal of the Royal Geographical Society on the 24th Feb- 
ruary 1860. Captain Speke he had had the pleasure of seeing here when 
