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Rules of the Society. 



The Council of the Asiatic Society, in their last Annual Report, drew 

 the attention of the Society to the necessity of revising the existing 

 rules ; the Society having resolved that such a revision should be made, 

 a revised code of Rules has been submitted to the Society, and will be 

 taken into consideration on the 15th instant. 



Secretaries. 



About the commencement of the past year, the Society was deprived 

 of the valuable services of Mr. Laidlay, who was compelled by ill- 

 health to re-visit Europe. Mr. Laidlay's ability, zeal and worth are 

 too well known to require any lengthened eulogium at the hands of 

 the Council. In consequence of a resolution of the Society Mr. Laid- 

 lay, though absent, continues to be one of the Joint- Secretaries of the 

 Society. 



About the same time, the exigencies of the public service rendered 

 it imperative on Dr. O'Shaughnessy to resign the appointment of 

 Secretary, which he had so long, so ably, and so zealously filled. The 

 Council, with the sanction of a general meeting of the Society, con- 

 veyed to that gentleman the expression of their deep regret at his resig- 

 nation of the office of Secretary, and unanimously resolved to place on 

 record their grateful sense of his valuable services. At a meeting of 

 the Society held on the 1st May, 1850, Captain Hayes was elected 

 Secretary in the room of Dr. O'Shaughnessy. 



Journal. 



The number of Journals which have been published with the past 

 year amount to 9, including three for October, November and Decem- 

 ber, 1849, which comprise the valuable and interesting catalogue of 

 Malayan Fishes by that eminent naturalist, Dr. Cantor. This num- 

 ber in materials, in fact, equals (6*) six ordinary ones, and will supply 

 certain important desiderata in the Icthyology of the Eastern Seas 

 long felt and anxiously expected. 



Bibliotheca Indica. 



During the past year (8) eight numbers have been issued. A 

 sub-committee consisting of J. R. Colvin, Esq. W. Jackson, Esq. 

 Captain Broome, Babu Ram Gopal Ghose, and Captain Hayes, 

 have been appointed to report upon the publication and suggest 

 whatever they might deem advisable with reference to it. Owing 



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