436 Proceedings of the Asiatie Society. [No. 4, 
“ August 14th. 
“ My pear Grorz,—l expect to leave Calcutta within a fortnight 
and to be absent probably for several months, I shall be much obliged 
if you will at once lay before the Council my resignation of the office 
of Secretary. 
“You and our colleagues are aware that I have long intended to 
take this step on the first occasion when my absence from Calcutta 
became necessary, and it will be convenient for all parties that I should 
give up the Secretaryship now, so that I may make over charge oi the 
office to my successor before I leave. 
“JT must ask you to convey to the Council and the Society my 
warm thanks for the confidence they have so long reposed on me, and 
assure them that, though no longer in office, I shall not cease to take 
the same hearty interest as heretofore in all that concerns the Society’s 
welfare. 
“‘ Very sincerely yours, 
(Signed) “W. S. ATKINSON. 
“A. Grote, Esq., Vice-President, Asiatic Society.” 
The Chairman then stated that in accordance with the provision of 
the same Rule, the Council had appomted Mr. H. F. Blanford as 
Secretary to the Society, which appoimtment would likewise be sub- 
mitted to the Society for confirmation at the following mecting. He 
then proposed and Mr. Grote seconded the following resolutions expres- 
sive of the Society’s acknowledgment of the eminent services rendered 
to it by Col. Thuillier and by Mr. Atkinson :— 
That the thanks of the Society be given to Col. Thuillier for his 
conduct of the Society. 
This being put to the vote was carried unanimously. 
The Chairman proposed that the warm thanks of the Society be 
given to Mr. Atkinson for his services as Secretary during the long 
period of more than seven and a half years. 
This proposition being put to the vote was carried unanimously. 
The chairman further anaounced that the Council had elected 
Lieutenant-Coionel J. E. Gastrell and Dr. 8. B. Partridge, as members 
of their body, in the place of Colonel Thuillier and the Hon’ble 
H.S. Maine, and that Captain W. N. Lees, LL. D., had been appomted 
a Vice-President of the Society in the place of Mr. H. C. Bayley. 
The Council further reported that they had granted to My, Blyth a 
