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From Mr. Logan, Singapore, with a paper on Lamination and Lami- 

 nar Coloration accompanying Iron-masked Walls in the Sedimentary 

 Rocks of Singapore, &c. 



From B. H. Hodgson, Esq., on the Tame Sheep and Goats of the 

 sub-Himalayas and Thibet. 



From Capt. William Munro, announcing his retirement from the 

 Society in consequence of his departure to England. 



From H. Cope, Esq., forwarding, on the part of the Archaeological 

 Society of Dehli, a memoir by Messrs. Cope and Lewis " on the Town 

 and Palace of Feerozabad, in the vicinity of Dehli," 



From Capt. Kittoe, on the route of Fa Hian through the Province 

 of Behar. 



From Baboo Nrependernath Tagore, Honorary Secretary to the 

 Tuttwabodhini Sabha, presenting a copy of the first Kulpa of the 

 " Tuttwabodhini Patrika." 



From Baboo Debendernath Tagore, forwarding a Buddhistical image 

 recently exhumed in the vicinity of the Temple of Tribeni, near 

 Hooghly. 



On the part of the Council of the Society the Secretaries submitted 

 their unanimous recommendation — that Capt. William Munro, be 

 elected an Honorary member of the Society, as a tribute of their sense 

 of the zeal and success with which he has applied his varied scienti- 

 fic attainments to numerous enquiries of general utility during his late 

 service in India. 



That Capt. Munro' s report on the Timber Trees of Bengal be forward- 

 ed to the Millitary Board, as that of the Asiatic Society, with the due 

 acknowledgment of the valuable aid Capt. Munro has afforded, also 

 that the Report be published in the Journal. 



A letter having been received by Mr. Laidlay from Colonel Sykes, 

 announcing that the Court of Directors had sanctioned the immediate 

 publication of the Rig Veda in London, to be edited by Dr. Muller, 

 with a translation by Professor Wilson, at an expense of Rs. 40,000, 

 the Council felt it to be their duty to direct the immediate suspension 

 of all outlay on the edition of the same work recently sanctioned by the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal under the editorial management of Dr. Roer. 



