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I have to Superintend ; it becomes impracticable for me to continue in charge 

 of the Office of Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



I have therefore to request that you will communicate my resignation to 

 the Council and the Society at large. 



In the interval between this and the next meeting I will make every 

 arrangement for clearing off any arrears of business and correspondence, so 

 as to facilitate the duties of my successor, to whom it will afford me great 

 pleasure to give every assistance in my power on his taking charge of the 

 Office. 



I have the honor to remain, 



Your obedient servant, 

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

 Calcutta Mint, \bth April, 1850. 



It was unanimously resolved, that this meeting, while it receives 

 with regret the resignation of Dr. O'Shaughnessy, desires to express 

 its grateful sense of the valuable services which, as senior Secretary, he 

 has so long rendered to the Asiatic Society of Bengal ; and that the 

 Secretary communicate the sentiments of the Society as above expressed 

 to the late Secretary ; and that it be published in the Journal. 



Read a report of the Council of the Society, recommending the 

 appointment of Capt. F. C. C. Hayes to succeed Dr. O'Shaughnessy 

 as Secretary : the report is as follows : 



At a meeting of the Council held on the 19th of April, 1850. 



Present. 



The Hon'ble Sir James Colvile, President, 



W. B. Jackson, Esq,. Vice-President. 



W. Seton Karr, Esq. "*) 



S. G. T. Heatly, Esq. | 



R. W. G. Frith, Esq. )>Members. 



Babtj Ramgopal Ghose. I 



C Beadon, Esq. J 



The President stated that since the circulation of Dr. O'Shaugh- 

 nessy's letter of the 15th of April, 1850, he had ascertained that 

 Capt. Fletcher Hayes was willing to be put in nomination for the office 

 of Secretary. Wherefore it was resolved unanimously 



That Capt. Fletcher Hayes be proposed by the Council to the next 

 general meeting of the Society for election as Joint Secretary of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal in the room of W. B. O'Shaughnessy, Esq., 

 M. D., resigned. 



The meeting unanimously approved of the nomination of the Council. 

 Confirmed, 3rd June, 1850, J. W. Colvile, President. 



Fletcher Hayes, Secretary. 



Library. 

 The following books have been received since the last meeting. 



Presented. 



The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya, being an account, Botanical and 



Geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of 



Eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during 



a Government Botanical Mission to that country ; by Joseph Dalton Hooker, 



