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further leave of nine months on full pay, contingent on the application 
for pension not being complied with by the Secretary of State for 
India before the expiration of his present leave. 
Communications were received— 
1. From the Under-Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign 
Department ; Lieutenant-Colonel Pelly’s report of his tour round the 
northern portion of the Persian Gulf, with journal of the route and a 
sketch map by Dr. Colvill. 
2. From Lieutenant-Colonel J. Abbot; remarks on the site of 
Aornos. 
3. From Lieutenant-Colonel S. R. Tickell ; Memo. relative to three 
Andamanese in the charge of Lieutenant-Colonel 8. R. 'Tickell, when 
Deputy Commissioner of Amherst, Tenasserim, in 1861. 
The Secretary having read this paper, the thanks of the meeting 
were voted to the author for his interesting remarks. 
4. From Baboo Gopinauth Sen ; Abstracts of the Hourly Metero- 
logical observations taken at the Surveyer General’s Office in June 
last. 
5. From Major-General Cunningham; note on a Bactro-Pali 
inscription from Taxila. 
6. From the same ; remarks on the date of the Pehewa Inscription 
of Raja Bhoja. 
The Chairman read the papers from General Cunningham. 
Babu Rajendralala Mitra, adverting to General Cunningham’s com- 
ments on his paper on the Bhoja Raja of Dhar and his homonyms, stated 
that some of the errors dilated upon by the General had been already 
acknowledged or corrected by him, and that others were due to misap- 
prehensions on the part of that gentleman, which could be easily 
explained ; but they required more time and attention than he could 
then devote to them, and that, even if he did, he would tire the 
patience of the meeting by a number of quotaticns and references 
which could not be easily followed. There were others, again, he said, 
which were attributable to ditferences of opinion, and he did not wonder 
that they should exist. When it is remembered that scholars differ as 
to the correct readings of texts published only three or four centuries 
ago, and that the commentators of Shakespeare had not yet come to a 
determination as to the original reading of many passages in the writings 
of that prince of poets, it was but naturai that those who had to deal 
