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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



[No. I, 



Baboo Kaliprosunno Duti, Pleader High Court, proposed by Baboo 

 Eajendralal Mitra, seconded by Mr. Grote. 



H. Leeds, Esq., Conservator of Forests in Burmah, proposed by Mr, 

 Theobald, seconded by Mr. Grote. 



A. M. Yerchere, Esq., H. M.'s Indian Army, proposed by Capt. 

 H. H. G. Austen, seconded by Capt. Lees. 



Lieut. A. Pullan, Topographical Assistant G. T. Survey, Kashmir 

 Series, proposed by Capt. H. H. Gr. Austen, seconded by Mr. Grote. 



The Council reported that the following correspondence had passed 

 between them and the Government of India, on the subject of the 

 transfer of the Society's Museum to Government. 



No. 173. 



Fbom the Secketary to the Asiatic Society oe Bengal,— To 

 E. C. Bayley, Esq., Secy. Govt, of India, Home Dept. 



Asiatic Society's Booms, Calcutta, 13th April, 1863. 



Sie, — With reference to former correspondence on the subject of 

 the proposed new museum, I am directed by the Council of the 

 Asiatic Society to solicit the attention of Government to the plan 

 sketched out in my letter dated 18th June, 1862, KTo. 180, as the 

 basis of a definite arrangement for the transfer of the Society's 

 museum. 



As some years must probably elapse before a new museum building 

 can be erected and fitted for the reception of the Society's collections, 

 during which time the zoological portion of the collections will be 

 liable to continued deterioration, if adequate provision be not made 

 for their preservation, it appears highly desirable to the Society's 

 Council that arrangements should be speedily completed for the 

 permanent curatorship of the museum. 



It is the more advisable that the consideration of this question be 

 no longer deferred, as the Society's curator, Mr. Blyth, has now left 

 India in such a state of health that there appears but little proba- 

 bility of his returning to resume his former duties, and the valuable 

 services now voluntarily given by Dr. Jerdon to the superintendence 

 of the zoological portion of the museum, are necessarily temporary, 

 and not to be permanently relied on. It will, consequently, be neces- 

 sary before long to consider the appointment of a permanent successor 

 to Mr. Blyth, and it is obviously desirable that the whole question 





