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mentioned in your letter of the 17th inst. I take this opportunity of with- 

 drawing my name from the list of subscribers, wishing success to the insti- 

 tution. 



I am, 



Your's faithfully, 

 September 3d, 1847. J. S. Torrens. 



Read letters from Mr. Secretary Bushby, Home Department, forward- 

 ing extracts from a memoir by Mr. Masters, on the Natural History of 

 the Agami Hills, communicated through Major Jenkins. 



From the under-Secretary to the Government of India with the 

 Governor General, and from the Secretary to the Government of the 

 North Western Provinces, sending in duplicate two reports from Lieute- 

 nants Keatinge and Evans, on passages accomplished on the Nerbudda 

 river from Mundlaisur to Baroach. 



From H. M, Elliott, Esq., announcing that Lieut. Strachey's memoir 

 on the lake districts of Manasarowur has been placed in the hands of 

 Mr. Batten of Almorah, to be forwarded to the Society. 



From Capt. Thuillier, Officiating Deputy Surveyor General, enclosing 

 the Meteorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's Office for 

 October. 



From Capt. Vicary, Subathoo, forwarding a memoir on the Botany 

 of Sinde. 



From Mr. Laidlay, enclosing 16 Rupees, a subscription by Dr. 

 Campbell of Darjeeling, for the repairs of the monument of Sir W. 

 Jones, the restoration of which the Secretary stated had been entrusted 

 to Messrs. Sherriff and Co. 



From Walter Elliot, Esq., Madras, sending a paper on the language 

 of the Goands, and the identity of many of its terms with words now in 

 use in the Telugu, Tamil and Canarese. 



From Brigadier Stacy, commanding at Neemuch, forwarding a draw- 

 ing by Lieut. Anley of a rare and very large grasshopper, "and tendering 

 his cordial co-operation with the labours of the Society. 



From B. H. Hodgson, Esq., forwarding a list of coins, which are 

 offered on sale, and which Mr. Hodgson can procure for the inspection 

 of the Society. 



