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Nos. 4 & 5, the last in triplicate, are very like the silver dabs 

 found by Major Kittoe, Mr. Thomas and others in Gangetic India, 

 and are supposed to have belonged to Hindu Kings of the 2d and 

 3d centuries before Christ. They bear no inscription, and their 

 legends are indistinct. They were I understand found in Guzerat. 



Yours truly, 



(Sd.) Rajesdea Lal Mittea. 

 The Council reported — 



1. That the name of Baboo Eoma Nauth Banerjee has been 

 removed from the list of Members, under rule 13 of the Society's 

 Code of Bye laws, for non-payment of arrears. 



2. That they have granted the Asst. Secretary and Librarian 

 Baboo Gourdoss Bysack leave of absence for 6 months upon urgent 

 private affairs, and appointed Baboo Bhobany Persaud Dutt to act 

 for him during his absence. 



Confirmed. 

 Communications received — 



1. Prom Baboo Eadha Nauth Sikdar, an Abstract of the Meteoro- 

 logical Observations taken at the Surveyor General's Office in the 

 month of May last. 



2. From Mr. James Burgess, a paper on Hypsometrical Measure- 

 ments by means of the Barometer and Boiling Point Thermometer. 

 This paper gave rise to considerable discussion chiefly maintained 

 by Colonel Strachey, Dr. Thomson and the author. 



3. Prom Baboo Hori Sunker Dutt, Deputy Inspector of Schools, 

 Bancoorah, through Mr. Hand, the Inspector of Schools, South 

 Bengal, the following letter accompanied by a brick bearing a Ben- 

 gal Inscription. 



" I have the honor to submit for your consideration a brick 

 which I have found in the ruins of the old temple of the Devee 

 Basoolee at Chhatna in Zilla Bancoorah. This Devee is alluded to 

 in the Poems of Chundee Doss, one of the well known bards of Ben- 

 gal, and this excited my curiosity to pay a visit, on one occasion of 

 my going to Chhatna on duty, to the scene of events now so popular 

 with numbers of our countrymen. Here the villagers pointed out 

 the place where Chundee Doss's dwelling stood, the stone upon 

 which he used to yit and compose his songs, and the old site of the 



