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From Captain Champneys, intimating his desire to withdraw from 

 the Society. 



From Dr. Campbell, Darjiling, dated Laehong, Oct. 24th, pre- 

 senting 3 skins of the Kiang or wild Ass of Thibet. 



From John Russell Bartlett, Esq., Corresponding Secretary of the 

 American Ethnological Society, dated New York, 15th May, 1849, 

 transmitting, for acceptance of the Society, a copy of the Transactions of 

 the Ethnological Society, (1st and 2nd vols.) and expressing a desire 

 for an exchange of publications. 



From Captain Hutton, forwarding some remarks on the snow line 

 of the Himalaya, in reply to Lieut. Strachey. 



The annual accounts were submitted and referred to the Finance 

 Committee about to be elected. 



The President read the following Report by the Council of the 

 Society, on the state of its affairs at the close of the year 1849. 



Report. 



The Council regret to state that under the circumstances in which 

 they are placed, they cannot lay before the Society that detailed 

 Report which has usually been presented, and which the Society has a 

 right to expect will be presented, at its annual meeting. 



The Senior Secretary Dr. O'Shaughnessy has, during the greater 

 part of the present year, been compelled by the state of his health to 

 absent himself from the Presidency, the same cause also for several 

 months deprived the Society of the services of the Co-Secretary Mr. 

 Laidlay. During the absence of Mr. Laidlay Dr. Walker and 

 Dr. McClelland were kind enough to discharge temporarily the duties 

 of the Secretaries including the editorship of the Journal. 



The financial state of the Society was brought to its notice and 

 certain reductions recommended by the Council, in a Report made at 

 the general meeting of the 1st of August, 1849. Some of the recom- 

 mendations of the Council were adopted and others rejected by a 

 general meeting of the Society held on the 5th of September, 1849. 



The Council would have again submitted a more formal statement 

 of the Society's finances, had it not been prevented by the circum- 

 stances into which it is now necessary to enter, from drawing up and 

 presenting an annual Report in the ordinary form. 



