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Mr. G. Blundell, C. S. also expressed his desire to rejoin the Society. 



The following letters and communications were submitted. 



From II. M. Elliot, Esq. Secretary to Government, Foreign Depart- 

 ment, forwarding Reports by Lieut. -Col. Wilcox on the Observatory 

 of Lucknow. 



From the same, enclosing Lieut. Dalton's account of his visit to Dew- 

 angari, Upper Assam. 



From J. H. Batten, Esq. Senior Assist. Commissioner, Kumaon, for- 

 warding the first part of Lieut. Strachey's tour to the lake districts of 

 Manasarowar, in Thibet. 



From Capt. Thuillier forwarding Meteorological Register for April, 

 kept at the Surveyor General's Office. 



From John R. Broadhead, Esq. United States Legation, London, pre- 

 senting in the name of the Legislature of New York, 3 Vols of the 

 " Natural History of New York," in continuation of the preceding 

 volumes of the same work formerly presented. 



The respectful thanks of the Society were unanimously voted to the 

 Legislature of New York, and directions given to request their accept- 

 ance for the State Library of a complete set of the Society's publi- 

 cations. 



From the most Rev. the Archbishop of Edessa and Vicar Apostolic 

 of Bengal, transmitting extract of a rescript from His Eminence the 

 Cardinal Prefect, signifying the pleasure with which His Holiness Pius 

 the IX. has consented to accept the works presented by Mr. Hodgson 

 and by this Society. 



Resolved, that the thanks of the Society be conveyed to the most 

 Rev. Dr. Carew, and copy of the rescript of the Cardinal Prefect for-: 

 warded to Mr. Hodgson. 



From H. M. Elliot, Esq. inviting the attention of the Society to an 

 elaborate essay by Colonel Wilford on the ancient Geography of India 

 which exists in MS. in the Society's Library. 



To the Secretary Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — I beg leave to bring to the notice of the Asiatic Society that there 

 exists in their Library an elaborate essay by Colonel Wilford, on the " Ancient 

 Geography of India," which, as far as I can ascertain, has never yet been 

 published. An essay of his, with the same title, was printed in the XIV. Vol. 



