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at least 12,000 Rupees more, a sum altogether beyond our means, or 

 our reasonable prospects. 



The Zoological Curator Mr. Blyth, is engaged in the MS. of the 

 descriptive drawings completed, and the Committee propose to issue the 

 whole in a Portfolio to the members of the Society, as soon as Mr. 

 Blyth enables them to do so. 



Regarding Dr. Cantor's very beautiful drawings, the Secretaries have 

 failed to obtain some essential information, and which they cannot hope 

 for, before Mr. Torrens' expected visit to Calcutta in the ensuing month. 

 The Committee of Papers confidently expect that in connexion with the 

 Journal nearly the whole of Dr. Cantor's drawings will be published by 

 the Society within a moderate period. 



Alterations in Society's rules. 

 The Committee next invite the consideration of the Society to a 

 proposal they regard as one of very great consequence. It has lately 

 happened on several occasions that at scanty meetings, measures have 

 been adopted and officers elected without any previous notice or oppor- 

 tunity for deliberation, — or for the expression of the general opinion of 

 the members on the several proposals. The danger to which this ex- 

 poses the society, is equally serious and obvious. They may at any time 

 find a few members voting away funds or altering their organization so 

 as to favor some particular pursuit. To prevent this the Committee 

 suggest that in future all proposals affecting expenditure, election of 

 officers, changes of organization, and generally all questions of import- 

 ance, be first duly notified at a general meeting, then referred to the 

 Committee of Papers for report, and not decided on finally, until passed 

 by a general meeting, (after such report shall have been submitted,) at 

 which at least 12 members must be present. 



Institution of Sections. 



The Committee are further desirous to advert to the strong necessity 

 which appears to exist for forming special Committees or Sections 

 among the members resident in Calcutta and its vicinity, for advice and 

 reference to on subjects demanding peculiar acquirements in the indivi- 

 duals who are consulted. 



It may be said that the Committee of Papers are so constituted or so 



