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the Society fully appreciate the advantage of retaining on their estab- 

 lishment a Muhammedan scholar, in the appointment of the late 

 Mauluvl, they felt that the financial position of the Society rendered 

 his removal, for the present at least, a measure of necessity. At the 

 same time the preservation of the Society's library was by no means 

 neglected, being entrusted to the Society's librarian, Babu Rajendra- 

 lal Mittra. 



A valuable paper by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., on the Physical Geography 

 of the Himalaya, accompanied by a map, was laid before the meeting ; 

 but as it is already printed in the number of the Society's Journal 

 now nearly ready for issue, it was not deemed necessary to read it in 

 extenso. 



Read a short note by Henry Torrens, Esq., on Native Impression 

 regarding the natural history of certain animals. 



From Captain Newbold, forwarding a paper by Hekekyan Bey 

 describing the strata bored through in searching for coal in Wadi 

 Araba in the eastern desert of Egypt, with an introductory note by 

 himself. — Ordered for publication in the Journal. 



Several other communications of no public importance having been 

 read 



The Rev. Mr. Long brought to the notice of the meeting the loss 

 the Society had sustained by the death of Dr. Hseberlin, who had 

 been an active member for many years and proposed the following 

 resolution, which was carried unanimously. 



" Resolved, — That the Society desire to record the sense that they, 

 as well as the cause of Sanskrit literature, have sustained by the death 

 of Dr. Hseberlin." 



The Secretary having brought to the recollection of the meeting the 

 proposal of the Council in the recent Financial Report, that a Com- 

 mittee be appointed to pass the monthly accounts, it was 



Resolved, — That a Finance Committee be appointed at the ensuing 

 annual meeting, to audit the monthly accounts. 



The Secretary laid before the meeting an Atlas and a skeleton map 

 of the Chinese territories in Central Asia, drawn up from very recent 

 Chinese authorities. These maps exhibit the topography of these 

 countries in much detail, rendering it easy to trace the routes given in 

 Von Humboldt's Asie Centrale, that of Mir Izzat Ullah, Sekander 



