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Ordered that the present be acknowledged with thanks, 



6th. From M. P. J. Ondaatjee, Esq., through the Right Rev. the 

 Lord Bishop, presenting a copy of a Memoir of Dr. Quint Ondaatjee. 



Ordered that the present be thankfully acknowledged. 



7th. From Raja Radhakant Deb Bahadur, the last volume of his 

 Dictionary. 



Ordered that the thanks and congratulations of the Society on the 

 completion of this valuable work be communicated to Raja Radhakant 

 Deb. 



8th. The Librarian laid on the table a list of books added to the 

 Library during the month of August last. 



The name of Lieut. Faithful, proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting having being brought forward for ballot — 



It was resolved that the election of Lieut. Faithful be reserved for 

 determination at the next meeting, as there were not eleven ordinary 

 members then present. 



The Council submitted a Report of the expenditure on account of 

 the Bibliotheca Indica from the year 1847, to July, 1851, together 

 with a list of works published with reference to a resolution passed at 

 the last meeting. 



Ordered that the Report be laid on the table. 



The following communications were then read : 



1st. A letter from W. Seton Karr, Esq., Under Secretary to the 

 Government of Bengal, acquainting the Society that with the permis- 

 sion of the Military Board the Executive Officer of Berhampore will 

 proceed to Gour to make drawings of the architectural remains there, 

 in December next. 



Resolved that the thanks of the Society be conveyed to his Honor 

 the Deputy Governor for this communication. 



2nd. A Report on the Kurrukpore Hills, by Captain J, R. Sherwill, 

 communicated by Captain Thuillier. 



3rd. On the Dust Whirlwinds and Cyclones, by P. T. H. Badde- 

 ley, Esq. M. D., communicated by H. Piddington, Esq. 



Report of the Curator Museum of Economic Geology. 

 Economic Geology. — Captain Haughton has sent us from Suray Rela and 

 some other localities in the Chybassa district, four specimens of copper ore 

 with a bit of the smelted copper and one of common iron ore. I find upon 



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