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The Chairman observed that he read this letter with very great 
regret in which he felt sure that the meeting and the Society generally 
would join. The only set-off against the loss of Mr. Cowell’s services 
as Secretary was the hope held out of greater progress in the publica- 
tion of the Black Yajur Veda in the Bibliotheca Indica. 
He would move the following resolution, which he thought would 
have the meeting’s countenance :— 
That this meeting desires to record its sense of the services rendered 
by Mr. Cowell as Secretary during an incumbency of five and a 
half years, and to express its regret at his inability to remain in 
that office. 
The resolution having been put to the vote, was carried unanimously. 
Communications were received— 
1. From Lieut.-Col. R. C. Tytler, a short description of a new 
species of Paradoxurus. 
2. From C. Campbell, Esq. Executive Engineer, Delhi Division, a 
copy of a memorandum lately submitted to the Punjab Government on 
the life-sized statues of elephants exhumed in the Delhi palace. 
3. From Baboo Gopeenath Sen, Abstracts of the Hourly Meteoro- 
logical Observations taken at the Surveyor General’s Office in 
May last. 
4, From Colonel Tickell, an account of the Gibbon (Hylobates 
lar), with remarks on its range and habits. 
Mr. Blanford read the paper of Colonel Tickell, and made some com- 
ments on the subject of it, which were subsequently confirmed by the 
Chairman. 
Thanks were then accorded to the author and to Mr. Blanford. 
For SEPTEMBER, 1863. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 
held on the 2nd instant. 
H. C. Bayley, Esq., President, in the chair. 
The proceedings of the ies ea were read and coment 
Presentations were re 
1. From Colonel re on the part of Dr. C. Williams, an in- 
scribed tile with Buddhist figure found at Tagoung, similar to those 
presented by the Colonel in May last. . 
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