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1 st. An inscription of a decayed Mosque, from Mr. Beaufort. Mr. 

 C. Beadon supplied the following details regarding it : " The inscrip- 

 tion is taken from a decayed Mosque at Burh, in the district of Patna ; 

 the stone in which it is carved might easily be obtained at no other 

 cost than the expence of carriage from Burh to Calcutta." 



2nd. The President stated the substance of a private letter which he 

 had received from Major Lang, with a drawing of the Gate of the Adynah 

 Mosque at Gour, taken under the superintendence of Captain Layard, 

 Executive Officer at Berhampore, and recommended that a letter be 

 addressed to the Government of Bengal, expressing the hope of the 

 Society that the Government will give permission to Captain Layard 

 to visit Gour, whenever he can do so consistently with the perform- 

 ance of his official duties, for the purpose of prosecuting his researches 

 amongst the ruins, and procure drawings of the same. Resolved ac- 

 cordingly. 



3rd. From W. Seton Karr, Esq., Under Secretary to the Govern- 

 ment of Bengal, a letter enclosing, for such use as the Society may think 

 proper, a paper in original, entitled " Notes on the Dophlas and the 

 peculiarities of their language." 



4th. From Capt. Drury, communicated by Major General Cullen, 

 Travancore, through the Hon'ble W. Elliott, a paper on Roman Coins 

 discovered in Cannanore, on the Malabar coast. 



Resolved — that the thanks of the Society be conveyed to the Major 

 General, and the Hon'ble W. Elliott, and that he be requested to favor 

 the Society with as complete a series of the coins as may be convenient, 

 and to allow the loan of a complete series to have a set of electrotype 

 casts made of them. 



5th. From Dr. Bedford, Rampur Bauleah, a valuable paper entitled, 

 Suggestion for the extension, and perfection of vaccination simultane- 

 ously with a systematic study of epedemic and endemic diseases in India. 

 Thanks were voted to Dr. Bedford, and his paper was referred to the 

 Council. 



6th. From E. Blyth, Esq., Notice of a collection of mammalia, 

 birds and reptiles, procured at or near the station of Cherrapunji, in 

 the Khasia Hills, north of Sylhet. 



Confirmed, June ith, 1851, J. R, Colvin. 



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