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time of the lamented James Prinsep adorned each issue of the Journal, 

 and provided data for Meteorologists all over India, wherewith to com- 

 pare and correct their individual researches. 



The Committee have only further to express their earnest hope that 

 the members of a Society, the oldest in India, and holding a distin- 

 guished place in the estimation of the scientific world, will individually 

 as well as in co-operation with each other, make their best efforts to. 

 promote the objects for which the Society has been instituted. In 

 every department for research we number members of eminent acquire- 

 ments. Those residing at distant stations will find in the sections now 

 proposed representatives of their special pursuits with whom to corre- 

 spond, with whom to compare, or mature the results of their enquiries. 

 The Committee trust that new and efficient labourers will thus be soon 

 induced to join our ranks thereby increasing our funds to such an amount 

 as may enable us with the generous aid at present afforded by Govern- 

 ment, to extend efficient patronage to every branch of research, which 

 it is the province of the Asiatic Society to promote. 



In submitting the preceding Report the Secretaries desire in justice 

 to their eminent predecessor to republish here the resolution of the 

 Society passed at the meeting of November, 1846, respecting the previ- 

 ous management of the accounts and expenditure. 



Extract from Proceedings of Nov. 1846. 



A letter having been read from Mr. Torrens to the Co-Secretary re- 

 garding the accounts and expenditure of the Society during his secre- 

 tariat — 



It was resolved unanimously and directed to be laid before the next 

 general meeting for record. 



That the Committees beg leave to repeat prominently the previous 

 declaration of the Finance Committee, that the confusion in the accounts 

 of the Journal arose entirely from an accidental omission and error on 

 the part of the accountant, and further that they consider that every act 

 of Mr. Torrens, in the management of the Society's pecuniary affairs 

 has been done most openly and with their full cognizance and sanction. 



(Adopted by the November Meeting.) 



