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month thereof, the Council propose, as a future rule without retros- 

 pective effect, that members only pay from the month in which they 

 are elected — agreed unanimously. 



5. The defaulters' list having been again under consideration of the 

 Council by a vote of the September meeting, they propose — 



That members in India defaulters for more man 12 months be 

 struck off the list, after three months' notification being given — and 

 that the names of members removed on this account be duly published 

 in the Society's proceedings. 



Unanimously agreed to, and it was further directed to discontinue 

 sending the Journal till arrears be paid up. 



6. The Council submitted a letter from Dr. Roer, presenting the 

 portion of the Rig Veda he has already completed, including the text 

 and two translations, prose and metrical. The Senior Secretary read 

 the prose version of several hymns. 



After the reading of the hymns, it was proposed by Col. Forbes, se- 

 conded by Mr. O'Dowda, and agreed, that the MS. and versions be 

 referred to the Oriental Section for their report, and that the Assistant 

 Secretary, Rajendra Lai Mittra, be elected a member of that Section. 



Lastlv, the council by advice of the Oriental Section, recommend the 

 distribution of Dr. Hseberlin's Sanscrit Anthology according to the 

 annexed list, which was handed in : — 



1 The Honourable the Court of Directors, 25 copies. 



2 His Royal Highness John Duke of Saxony, 1 copy. 



3 The University of Oxford, 1 do. 



4 Ditto Cambridge, 1 do. 



5 Ditto Dublin, 1 do. 



6 Ditto Christiania, 1 do. 



7 The Royal Asiatic Society, 1 do. 



8 The Asiatic Society of Paris, 1 do. 



9 The Academy of Berlin, 1 do. 



10 Munich, 1 do. 



1 1 St. Petersburg, 1 do. 



12 American Philosophical Society, 1 do. 



13 Prof. II. II. Wilson, 1 do. 



14 Dr. W. II. Mill, 1 do. 



15 Sir J. Johnston, 1 do. 



16' The Honourable G. Turner, 1 do. 



