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For December, 1857. 



The Monthly General Meeting for December, was held on the 

 2nd instant. 



Major H. L. Thuillier, senior member present, in the Chair. 

 The proceedings of the November meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Presentations were received — 



1st. — From the Eoyal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, the latest 

 publications of the Academy. 



2 n d. — From the Bombay Government a copy of the Magnetical 

 and Meteorological Observations. 



3rd. — From Raja Shib Ohunder Deva, Bahadur, a copy of his trea- 

 tise on Infant Treatment in Bengali. 



The election of Mons. E. Schlagintweit as a corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Society was once more postponed under rule 6 of the 

 Society's bye-laws. 



Babu Kaliprasanna Sing, was proposed for ballot at the next 

 meeting by Babu Eajendralal Mittra, and seconded by Mr. Grote. 

 Communications were received — 



1st. — From Babu Eadha Nauth Sikdar, an abstract of the Mete- 

 orological Observations made in the office of the Surveyor General 

 during July last. 



2nd. — From Dr. G. von Liebig a paper entitled " Discussions 

 of some Meteorological Observations made on Parasnath Hill." 



3rd. — From Mr. Grote a letter, of which the following is an 

 extract, referring to the Tertiary fossils in the neighbourhood 

 of Kohat, presented to the Government Geological Museum by 

 Dr. Garnett. 



" An interesting letter was read by Professor Oldham at our June 

 meeting of 1856, in which Lieut. Garnett of the Engineers de- 

 scribed the country near Kohat, where Lieut. Trotter's fossils had 

 been found. Lieut. Garnett asked for information about the speci- 

 mens which had been sent down to the Society, and apparently also 



