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that the Secretary be instructed to forward to Col. Jackson the numbers 

 of the Journal subsequently to No. 56. 



Read a letter from Mr. H. Piddington, resigning the Secretaryship 

 of the Burnes' Committee. 



Mr. Heatly, as reporter to the Committee appointed last year to 

 consider the feasibility and advantage to the Society of renewing its 

 statistical researches, gave a verbal account of what had been done with 

 a view to ascertain the assistance on which the Society might reckon. 

 Extracts of a letter from Col. Sykes were read stating that the hearty 

 co-operation of the London Statistical Society might be expected, and 

 that the late measures of the Court of Directors were sufficient evi- 

 dence of the favorable disposition with which it would be disposed to 

 regard such labours on the part of the Asiatic Society. 



The Rev. J. Long was then placed on the Committee of Report, 

 in consequence of Mr. Alexander's departure to England. 



For all the presentations and communications the best thanks of the 

 Society were accorded. 



