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tigations. (Published under the Miscellaneous head in the present 

 number.) 



The ordinary business of the evening having been disposed of, the 

 Second Report of the Section of Natural History upon Mr. Blyth's ap- 

 plication for an increase of salary and a retiring pension, was then read, 

 together with the following resolutions of the Council upon the subject. 



Council of the Asiatic Society. 

 Section of Natural History, 7th June, 1848. 



The Council of the Asiatic Society submit a report from the Section of 

 Natural History on Mr. Blyth's reply to the former Report made by the 

 Section on Mr. Blyth's application for an increase of salary and a retiring 

 pension. 



The Council having perused with extreme care the whole of the statements 

 made by Mr. Blyth on the one hand and the Section of Natural History on 

 the other — deem it now their duty to propose, 



1st. — That the Report now made by the Section of Natural History be 

 received, read and laid upon the table. 



2d. — That the Society must decline to forward or support the application 

 of Mr. Blyth to the Court of Directors for an increase of salary or a retiring 

 pension. 



3d. — That the Society cannot acquit the Curator of serious neglect of duty 

 in permitting the collections of shells, fossils and insects, to fall into the 

 state of dilapidation and decay in which the same are now found to be. 



4th. — That the Section of Natural History be requested to adopt measures 

 for the restoration and re-arrangement of these collections. 



5th. — That the documents laid before the Council during this enquiry and 

 by them submitted to general meetings, be printed in a separate shape and 

 circulated to the members generally. 



6th. — That the thanks of the Society be voted to the Section of Natural 

 History for the service they have rendered to the Society by their investi- 

 gation of and reports upon the manner in which the duties of the Zoological 

 Curator have been discharged. 



W. B. O'Shaugiinessy, Secy. 



The first of these resolutions was adopted by the meeting. On the 

 second being put from the chair, Mr. Newmarch proposed as an amend- 

 ment, 



That the report now received and read, together with the minutes of 

 reference to the Zoological Section and their original report thereon, 



