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a memorandum of the approval of the Council of the proposition sub- 

 mitted by the Section. 



Sir, — We have the honour to request that you will be pleased to lay 

 before the Society, with a view to its being forwarded, if approved of, the 

 undermentioned suggestions of the Section appointed by the Society for the 

 advancement of Statistical Science in India. 



At a meeting of the Section the various means of obtaining Statistical 

 Information were attentively considered, and it was proposed by Captain 

 Staples and resolved unanimously that, as the resources at the command of 

 the Section are very limited, and as the records in the office of the Govern- 

 ment of Bengal are considerable, the Secretary of the Society be requested 

 with sanction of the Society, to solicit Government to permit the Index of 

 the papers now in the Bengal Secretariat Office, to be copied or published by 

 the Society, and subsequently to permit such papers as the Society may 

 consider valuable, and the Government may please to authorize, to be pub- 

 lished or extracts taken from them ; and secondly that the members of the 

 Section or other properly authorized persons, be permitted access to the 

 records or such portion of them, as the Government may be pleased to place 

 at their disposal for the above purpose. 



We have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient servants, 

 N. A. Staples, Br. Captain, Artillery. 

 James Long, C. L. K. 



March 27th, 1850. S. G. T. Heatly. 



Unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Piddington brought forward a resolution respecting lending of 

 Books and MSS. and copying of MS. 



The Librarian having submitted his usual monthly report, the 

 meeting adjourned. 



Confirmed, J. W. Colvile, President. 

 W. B. O'Shaughnessy, V. P. and Secy. 

 3rd April, 1850. 



Library. 

 The following books have been received since the last meeting. 



Presented. 

 Elements of Electro-Biology, or the Voltaic Mechanism of man ; of Electro- 

 Pathology, especially of the Nervous System ; and of Electro-Therapeutics. 

 By Dr. Alfred Smee. — Presented by the Author. 



