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printed and circulated to the members, and brought up for final con- 

 sideration at the February meeting. 



The meeting then proceeded to the election of Office-Bearers for 

 1848, when the following gentlemen were chosen : — 

 President — J. W. Colvile, Esq. Advocate General. 

 Vice Presidents — The Lord Bishop. 



The Hon. Sir John P. Grant. 

 II. M. Elliott, Esq. C. S. 

 J. W. Laidlay, Esq. 

 Council — G. A. Bushby, Esq., Welby Jackson, Esq., 



W. P. Grant, Esq., Capt. A. Broome, S. G. T. 

 Heatley, Esq., W. Grey, Esq., R. W. G. Frith, Esq., 

 Lord Arthur Hay, Dr. Walker, 

 W. Seton Karr, Esq., Dr. Jas. Dodd. 

 Secretaries — W. B. O'Shaughnessy, Esq., J. W. Laidlay, Esq. 

 Dr. E. Boer, Oriental Department. 

 The permanent officers remaining as before. During the election the 

 Senior Secretary stated that it had been ascertained by the Council that 

 the Bishop of Calcutta is prevented by the state of his health and 

 his public duties, and Sir J. P. Grant by his intended departure — from 

 accepting the office of President — and that 27 members had addressed 

 a requisition to the Council for the nomination of Mr. Colvile to the 

 office vacated by Lord Hardinge's departure. 



Library. 

 The following books have been received since the last meeting. 



Presented. 



Horary Meteorological Observations made at the Hon'ble the East India Com- 

 pany's Magnetieal Observatory at Madras. By Capt. S. O. E. Ludlow. — By thf. 

 Madras Government. 



Die Kaukasischen Glieder des Indoeuropaischen Sprachstomms. von Franz 

 Bopp. — By the Author. 



Rapport Annuel fait a la Societe Asiatique dans sa seance Generale, du 14 Juin, 

 1817. Par M. Jules Mohl.— Br the Author. 



The Calcutta Christian Observer for December 1847, and January 1848. — By 

 the Editors. 



The Indian Atlas, Nos. 50, 56, 79, and 107. — By the Government of India. 



The Oriental Christian Spectator, Vol. 8, Nos. 11 and 12. — By the Editor. 



Tatwabodljini Patiica. Nos. 52, 53. — By the Tatwahodhini Sabha. 



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