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The Keport having been read, it was proposed by Colonel Thuillier, 

 seconded by Mr. Grote, that it be adopted. The proposition being 

 put to the vote was carried unanimously. 



The meeting then proceeded to ballot for the Council and officers 

 for the next yeai\ 



Colonel Thuillier and Mr. W. L. Heeley were appointed scrutineers, 

 and at the close of the ballot the chairman announced the following 

 result : — 



Council — E. C. Bayley, Esq., President; Captain W. N. Lees, Dr. 

 T. Anderson, Baboo Rajendralal Mitra, Vice-Presidents; Dr. J. 

 Fayrer ; E. B. Cowell, Esq. ; Dr. S. B. Partridge ; J. Obbard, Esq. ; 

 Lieut.-Col. C. XL Dickens ; Lieut.-Col. J. E. Gastrell ; Lieut.-Col. 

 H. Hyde ; H. Leonard, Esq. ; Baboo Jadava Krishna Sing ;; — EL F. 

 Blanford, Esq., and W. L. Heeley, Esq., Joint Secretaries. 



The meeting then resolved itself into an ordinary general meeting. 



The following presentations were announced — - 



1. From Col. Fytche, Commissioner, Tenasserim Division, British 

 Burmah, — heads and horns of a male and a female double-horned 

 rhinoceros, from the source of the Tenasserim river. 



2. From Baboo Rajemfca Mullick, — a dead hybrid goat, and a 

 kangaroo. 



3. From Baboo Shoshee Chunder Dutt, — a copy of his work 

 entitled Stray Leaves, or Essays, Poems, and Tales. 



4. From the Bombay Government,: — a copy of a Sindi work 

 entitled Saswi and Punhu. 



5. From Captain F. Stubbs, — a number of coins collected at 

 different times, in the Punjab and Delhi. 



A vote of thanks to the above donors was proposed by the Presi- 

 dent, and carried unanimously. 



Letters from Lieut.-Col. L. Pelly, Lieut. W. J. Stewart, Rev. J. 

 C. Thompson, E. G. Glazier, Esq., and Saheb Zada Mohammad 

 Walagohur, intimating their desire to withdraw from the Society, 

 were recorded. 



W. Murray, Esq., proposed at the last meeting was balloted for 

 and elected an ordinary member. 



The following gentlemen were named for ballot as ordinary members 

 at the next meeting : — 



Hon'ble Sumbhoo Nauth Pundit, Judge of the High Court, Calcutta,, 

 proposed by Mr, Cowell, seconded by the President. 



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